clientage
Example Sentences
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Amongst all South African tribes the rich exert their power to subjugate the poor, who hang upon them in a kind of clientage, hoping to receive something.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
It would be absurd for him now to furbish up the rusty weapons of the law and enter again upon the tedious labor of collecting a clientage.
From John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
He had a large clientage, especially among that class of Irish Americans who were apt in Massachusetts to vote with the Democratic Party.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
Bridges695 says that one Fuegian is thrown into clientage to another by their mode of life.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
