clientage
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
He wrote medical treatises which at the time made him a leader in his profession, secured a rich clientage, and prospered greatly.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
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
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
I did succeed, in a way, from the beginning, and was not without a good clientage, and some good employments.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.