She rebuked her lawyer for his authoritarian attitude to his clients.她指责她的律师对待委托人的命令式态度。
She can't come to the telephone, she's serving a client.她不能来接电话,她正在接待一位顾客。

［同义词］   buyer, shopper
［词源］＜拉丁语cliens(顾客)