clientage
Example Sentences
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Vaudrey caused these urgent people, as well as some others, to be received by Warcolier, who asked nothing better than to make tools, to sow the seed of his clientage.
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
The library had a limited and dwindling clientage.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
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 William Graham Sumner
I think that it might find a kindly welcome, but—I fear the verdict of the public, especially the clientage upon whose favor its fate most depends—the young people.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
