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Patient vs Clientele - What's the difference?

patient | clientele |

As nouns the difference between patient and clientele

is that patient is patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment while clientele is .

patient

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
    • Be patient : your friends will arrive in a few hours.
  • Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
    • patient endeavour
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
  • (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
  • * Bishop Fell
    • patient of severest toil and hardship

    Synonyms

    * composed

    Antonyms

    * impatient * antsy

    Derived terms

    * patiently

    Related terms

    * passion * passionate * passive * passivity * patience

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
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  • (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
  • One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
  • * Gov. of Tongue
    • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient .

    Antonyms

    * agent

    Derived terms

    * inpatient * outpatient * patient role * patient of something

    See also

    * -end

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    clientele

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en-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.
    • As a sex worker, Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 34 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor ”.

    See also

    * client * customer base