clientage

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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

He had been quite unable to devote his customary labor to the benefit of his law partnership and the good of their clientage during the two years that he was Mayor of Boston.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various

Characteristic of the times was the new form of clientage which was a voluntary association of master and paid retainer.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

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)