clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

But we have the greatest confidence that in time we shall thus be able to increase very greatly both the clientage and the usefulness of the university.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons

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

The library had a limited and dwindling clientage.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

For a young man he had already a considerable clientage.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert