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Antonyms for clientele

Grammar : Noun
Spell : klahy-uh n-tel, klee-ahn-
Phonetic Transcription : ˌklaɪ ənˈtɛl, ˌkli ɑn-

Definition of clientele

Origin :
  • 1560s, "body of professed adherents," from French clientèle (16c.), from Latin clientela "relationship between dependent and patron, body of clients," from clientem (nominative cliens; see client). Meaning "customers, those who regularly patronize a business or professional" is from 1857, perhaps a reborrowing from French (it was used in English in italics as a foreign word from 1836).
  • noun customers of business
Example sentences :
  • The clientele formed its own opinion of the cause of this, her only such condescension.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Not that all the books in Mr. Rowlandson's shop are old; his clientele is too diversified.
  • Extract from : « Old Valentines » by Munson Aldrich Havens
  • The clientele of the Express will not be made up of his puppets!
  • Extract from : « Carmen Ariza » by Charles Francis Stocking
  • Here his relations with the German and his clientele came to an end.
  • Extract from : « The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse » by Vicente Blasco Ibanez
  • You may even attain to quite a fashionable practice,—or clientele, which is it?
  • Extract from : « From the Housetops » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • Between consumption and these conditions, he caught both the young and the old, and thus rounded out his clientele.
  • Extract from : « Health Through Will Power » by James J. Walsh
  • It is the patent duty of every physician to instruct the members of his clientele in the fundamental rules of health.
  • Extract from : « Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: » by Louis Marshall Warfield
  • The clientele of 126 was an ever-changing one, but the class characteristics were stationary.
  • Extract from : « Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman » by Emma Speed Sampson
  • Although he seems to give his clientele soft food, he does not insist on spoon-feeding them.
  • Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins
  • Here he had slowly collected a clientele of butcher boys, shop girls, drug clerks and car conductors.
  • Extract from : « A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays » by Willa Cather

Synonyms for clientele

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