client

1. client (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

2. client (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.

3. client (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.

Example: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.