CLIENTS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

clients

noun

plural of client

as in customers

a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business a law firm soliciting new clients through television advertising

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Recent Examples of clients How much of those savings ultimately remains with Broadridge rather than being passed back to clients remains an open question. — Isabella Gao, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026 That means looking across categories, geographies, clients and experiences, and finding ways to serve them better. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026 What do our clients and partners actually want and expect from us? — Cellene Hoogenkamp, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026 The firm’s clients are large or small businesses looking to use AI. — Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026 The majority of its clients are women, Kavros DeGraw among them. — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026 Anna Slotky Reitano represented juvenile and adult clients, many of them accused of felonies, before joining the county counsel’s office. — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 When Nick went to present his first big case to clients and the board, he was paralyzed by stuttering, and the firm hired a vocal coach who taught him to sing through the stammer, hence the moniker. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 Melissa Fox, a master aesthetician whose clients include Elle McPherson, is a fan. — Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The company plans to test a reactor design and custom fuel similar to those intended for commercial customers.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
The companies said Instacart customers can now shop at more than 50,000 additional stores on top of the nearly 100,000 stores on the Instacart platform today.

— Rob Wile, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of customers

Noun

One small disappointment was the lack of access to the loft in my deluxe studio, tucked so high under the shed roof that it was deemed unsafe to allow guests access by ladder.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
In Paolo Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana (1563), the Louvre’s largest painting, a miniature brown-and-white lapdog stands on the biblical banquet table, partaking of the lavish meal set out for the guests.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of guests

Noun

Politicians could no longer rely on local patrons to intimidate people into voting for them and had to compete on representing their interests.

— Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026
Previously, Korean patrons were setting up remote offices in Starbucks outlets, even bringing desktop computers and printers.

— Jay Ganglani, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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