Client : name (against from Latin clients, clients).
The word “customer” has several meanings:
1. Antiquity: In Rome, it was a plebeian who put himself under the protection of a patrician called patron.
Meaning vieilli : Personne qui se place sous la protection de quelqu’un (protégé).
2. Modern meaning: Person who requires services for a fee. Clients of a notary, a lawyer.
Client, client of a doctor, a dentist (sick, patient).
Customers of a restaurant, a hairdresser, a Hotel, a shoemaker, a taxi,…
3. Person who buys (buyer, acquirer).
Being a customer for actions. A serious customer.
Figurative meaning and familiar : Être, n’être pas client : vouloir, ne pas vouloir de qqch (preneur).
At the head of the customer.
Customers of a shop (barge, practice; clientele).
Magazine full of customers (busy).
Wait for the customer: do not sell anything.
Seller busy serving a customer.
Customers of a café (consumer).
Proverbs: The customer is always right (principle of the art of selling). The client is king
Apposition: Customer service(s), customer relationship(s): service that manages a company's relations with customers (after-sales service, loyalty, etc.).
4. Specially: Person who always uses the same place (regular; faithful).
Serve- the good is a customer.
Un good, un gros client. Perdre un client.
5. Economy: consumer, importer.
Belgium is a very large customer of France on the automobile market.
Client company of another. Big customer. ➙ large account.
6. By English in computing: Computer system that uses services, information provided by a server to which it is connected.
Aposistion: Client Computers.
Architecture: client-server.
Opposites de client : patron, fournisseur, marchand, vendeur.