English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪənt

Noun

1. A customer or receiver of services.
2. The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
3. Person who receives help or advice from a professional person (ex. a lawyer, an accountant, a social worker, a psychiatrist, etc).

Related terms

• clientele
• client state
• server

Translations

• Afrikaans: Kliënt
• Dutch: klant
• Esperanto: kliento
• Finnish: asiakas
• German: (1) Kunde, (2) Klient
• Hebrew: לקוח (laqoakh) , לקוחה (lequkha) (1)
• Interlingua: cliente
• Italian: cliente m|f (1)
• Malayalam: കക്ഷി (kakshi)
• Persian: ارباب رجوع
• Russian: клиент
• Spanish: cliente
• Tagalog: kliyente

French

Noun

1. customer (one who purchases or receives a product or service)

• Client (band), a british synthpop band
  • Client (Client album), the above band's debut album
• Client (computing), a piece of software that accesses services from another piece of software (a server)
• Client (ancient Rome), usually a freed slave or member of the plebeian class who was sponsored by a patron benefactor
• Clients (album), an album by deathcore band The Red Chord
• The Client, a book and film by John Grisham
• The Client (The Office episode), a TV episode from the series The Office
• With respect to a professional services relationship, used to reference the party hiring a consultant. Used informally to describe any customer of a given service or product business.