professional client
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofessionalandclient
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professional
adjective
uk/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/us/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/
relating to work that needs special training ...
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client
noun[C]
uk/ˈklaɪ.ənt/us/ˈklaɪ.ənt/
a customer or someone who ...
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(Definition ofprofessionalandclientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A lawyer offers services to aprofessionalclient, but it is not clear that a self-employed plumber does so.
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The amendment defines client to include theprofessionalclientof a person providing services on a referral basis.
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In practice, the barrister'sprofessionalclientwould be a solicitor.
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It acts as aprofessionalclient, guiding and advising the authority, drawing up the brief, as we mentioned earlier on, selecting outside consultants and monitoring their work.
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Many of the professional clients we spoke to were less than convinced of architects' brief-building abilities in general: 'the skills of brief taking are generally lacking within the architectural profession'.
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My advice to professional clients in practice was always to avoid being a salaried partner: there are none of the advantages, and all the liabilities.
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I frequently receive firm assurances from my own professional clients that they are entirely innocent.
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I know of people, professional clients of mine, who are proprietors of businesses, shops, in a town of moderate size.
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I was not speaking of my professional clients.
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All my professional clients conduct themselves impeccably.
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I only hope for the sake of his professional clients that he takes a little more time in studying a brief before he gives counsel's opinion.
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Would not further prosecutions in this kind of case benefit only solicitors and their professional clients and not be in the interests of the community as a whole?
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He does freelance illustration and design for professional clients, but he sells his personal works to galleries or to individual clients upon request.
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