Patron vs Clientele - What's the difference?
patron | clientele |
One who protects or supports; a defender.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
An advocate or pleader.
* Macaulay
(UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(nautical) A padrone.
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.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 34 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
As nouns the difference between patron and clientele
is that patron is one who protects or supports; a defender while clientele is 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 verb patron
is to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.patron
English
Noun
(en noun)- patron of my life and liberty
- the patron of true holiness
- This car park is for patrons only.
- Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron' s ire.
Derived terms
* patronage * patroness * patronize, patronise *patron saintSee also
* sponsorAnagrams
* ----clientele
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- As a sex worker, Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
- The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor ”.