clientage
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
For a young man he had already a considerable clientage.
From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert
Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime Jenkins, is made up of nothing else.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham
Feudalism could not be established, however, until the great of the land had adopted them for themselves, and had begun to enter the clientage of others and to hold lands by the precarium tenure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
He was admitted to practice, and with it he rose rapidly both in knowledge of the common law and in securing a paying clientage.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.