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# client

«client» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who pays for help or advice from a professional…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a client, clients)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who pays for help or advice from a professional, such as a lawyer, builder or hairdresser: the lawyer's client. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#m1)

2) A customer of a shop or business (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#m2)

3) (computing) A program or computer that gets services or files from another computer called a server. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and maths problems, a business has clients who pay for services: a dog walker with 5 clients, a hairdresser charging each client. In computing lessons a client asks a server for a web page. Phrases: a regular client, client list, client and server.

### examples

- The lawyer met her client in the office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x1)
- Mum's hairdressing business has 30 regular clients. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x2)
- A dog walker charges each client 10 dollars, so 6 clients pay 60 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x3)
- (formal) Clients are asked to arrive on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x4)
- Your web browser is a client that asks the server for pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x5)
- The builder showed the client the plans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x6)
- Counsel for the Wasps immediately insisted that this description fitted his clients exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/#x7)

### note

Countable. "Client" is used for services (lawyer, accountant); "customer" more for shops; "patient" for doctors. In maths, total income = number of clients x price each.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «client» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/client/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.