paying client

collocation in English

meaningsofpayandclient

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pay
noun[U]
uk
/peɪ/us
/peɪ/
the money you receive for doing ...
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client
noun[C]
uk
/ˈklaɪ.ənt/us
/ˈklaɪ.ənt/
a customer or someone who ...
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(Definition ofpayandclientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpaying client

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The scheme will enable a solicitor to deal with an applicant in exactly the same way as he would apayingclient.
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Broadly the criteria seek to ensure that public funding is only available in circumstances where a privatelypayingclientwould be prepared to litigate.
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Those factors are similar to those which would influence a privatelypayingclientwhen considering whether to become involved in legal proceedings.
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He has therefore to apply exactly the same criteria of professional ethics to that client as to apayingclient.
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In many ways, a client with the benefit of a contracted lawyer will have more to be sure than the privatepayingclientwho chooses his own.
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Hitherto, the whole philosophy of our legal aid system has been that the client who is entitled gets the same service as if he was apayingclient.
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Feng owns a bathhouse that caters to the highest paying clients.
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The organization has 150 admissions experts on the platform, has serviced over 1,000 paying clients, and raised $400,000 in venture capital.
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Watson may have been the source of the story who sought to entertain and edify his paying clients with tales of local history.
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Private enterprise must make profits and the more paying clients private probation companies have in the form of probationers, the more they earn for their equity firms.
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