Definition of "clientship" []

• The position of a client. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "In the place of different political parties what Fatton terms "accumulation alliances" have arisen, based on clientship and centered around the charismatic personality of a particular gwo neg ( "big man"), engaged in a "criminalized zero-sum game" in pursuit of power."
• "Rwanda and other states in the region consolidated royal power through clientship, military expansion, regional trade in salt, iron hoes, and copper, and the development of new religious cults centered on the monarchy."
• "The Gadetanian uncle and nephew were put in the clientship of one of Pompey's more recent legates, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, a cousin of the consul."