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clientele

[klaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl]US/ˌklaɪ.ənˈtɛl/

clientele noun: the body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.

Noun

clientele (usually uncountable, plural clienteles)

  1. (usually) The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.
    • Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
    • The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor”.1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 34 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)

clientele meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Malay

clientele in Tamil

வாடிக்கையாளர் குழுமம், வாடிக்கைக் குழு

clientele in Malayalam

client, customer, buyer
കക്ഷി, പറ്റുവരവുകാരൻ, കൊടുക്കൽ വാങ്ങലിടപാടുള്ള ആൾ, ഇടപാടുകാരൻ, മരുങ്ങ്, കുറ്റിക്കാരൻ

clientele in Kannada

ಗಿರಾಕಿಗಳು, ಕಕ್ಷಿಗಾರರು

clientele in Malay

body of clients who frequent an establishment
klientel, pelanggan
More languagesFewer languages
clientele in Indonesian
pelanggan

Examples of clientele in a sentence

  • Due to its mixed clientele over the years, the Record Rack has a varied product array.1998 March 14, Patricia Bates, “Parks' Record Rack: Serving Southeast Texas Flavor For 39 Years”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 11, page...
  • Most of his clientele (95 percent are women, he estimates) were familiar with cupcakes from living or studying abroad.2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:

All 26 example sentences with clientele

Forms of clientele

pluralclienteles
alternative formclientèle

Plural of clientele: clienteles

Origin of clientele

Borrowed from French clientèle, ultimately from Latin cliēns (English client).

Words formed from clientele

Phrases with clientele

Questions about clientele

What does clientele mean?
Clientele means the body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.
What is clientele in Tamil?
Clientele in Tamil is வாடிக்கையாளர் குழுமம், வாடிக்கைக் குழு. See Clientele meaning in Tamil.
How do you use clientele in a sentence?
Due to its mixed clientele over the years, the Record Rack has a varied product array.
What part of speech is clientele?
Clientele is a noun.
How do you pronounce clientele?
Clientele is pronounced [klaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl] (UK).
What is the plural of clientele?
The plural of clientele is clienteles.

Words near clientele in the dictionary

  1. cliental
  2. clientdom
  3. cliented
  4. clientelage
  5. clientelages
  6. clientele
  7. clientele effect
  8. clientele effects
  9. clienteles
  10. clienteling
  11. clientelism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clientele (page history and authors); clientele (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clientele (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); clientele (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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