clientele Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun customers collectively
    patronage; business.
    • they have an upper class clientele

WordNet


Cli`en*tele" noun
Etymology
L. clientela: cf. F. clientèle.
Definitions
  1. The condition or position of a client; clientship. Obs. Bp. Hall.
  2. The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
  3. The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.

Webster 1913