clientage

Examples

• All

• To an extent, the peasantry adapts to these changes through clientage with rural notables and through the acceptance born of helplessness in the face of the increasingly paltry benefits of state patronage.

  Academic text (1998)

• At the same time, it seeks a rural political base to counterbalance urban opposition, relying once again on the mechanisms of patron-clientage and factionalism.

  Academic text (1990)

• What processes of clientage and exercise of power go on at the village level?

  Academic text (1998)

• As in modern times, they rose to assault the status quo but then fell either to defeat or to the clientage of a stronger power.

  Academic text (2001)

• Self-settlement challenges such assumptions at the same time that it raises other questions about power, clientage, and access to resources.

  Academic text (1998)

• Does participation in the cash economy exempt displaced persons from daabe clientage?

  Academic text (1998)

• In fact, she labels these lower-status coparents "a local clientage."

  Academic text (1995)

• Cattle were necessary for building social relations of kinship, pawnship, and political clientage

  Academic text (1998)

• As their economic dependency on the capitalist or communist poles grew, they fell as well into great-power clientage.

  Academic text (1999)

• Baptismal kinship was a tool for friendship, remuneration, protection, honor, patronage, and clientage.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

C

clientship

vsclientage

9.7

A social relationship where a person depends on a more powerful person

emphasizes mutual exchange of protection and services between patron and recipient

How Dependent

colony

96 3.3

vassal

7 9.9

tributary

• Archaic

9.1

clientage

• Archaic

9.9

allied

346 4.3

independent

360 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology