English noun: client |
1. | client (person) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer |
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| Broader (hypernym) | case |
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| Member meronym | attorney-client relation, lawyer-client relation |
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| Domain category | jurisprudence, law |
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2. | client (person) someone who pays for goods or services |
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| Synonyms | customer |
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| Broader (hypernym) | consumer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | buyer, disburser, emptor, expender, frequenter, guest, john, patron, policyholder, purchaser, reader, shopper, spender, subscriber, taker, trick, vendee, warrantee, whoremaster, whoremonger |
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| Member meronym | business relation |
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3. | client (artifact) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network |
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| Synonyms | guest, node |
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| Broader (hypernym) | computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system |
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| Part meronym | computer network |
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| Domain category | computer science, computing |
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