clientship

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noun

The position of a client.

OriginProto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English client →
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Meanings

nounclientship (countable and uncountable, plural clientships)

plural clientships

  1. countableuncountableThe position of a client.

    patronage and clientship always descended from the fathers to the sons

    1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
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    […] the capital of the Mandubians, a peoplet in clientship to the Æduans.

    1884, François Guizot, The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, page 61

Origin

  1. Englishclient
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. Englishclientship

From client + -ship.

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APA

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Chicago

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