{
  "id": "client.business",
  "term": "client",
  "sense": "business",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "client",
  "domain": "business",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person that receives a service",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "services.economic",
      "receive.communication"
    ],
    "interaction": "people.social receive.communication a service",
    "novel_properties": [
      "service recipient",
      "asymmetrical relationship",
      "economic role"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Amazon Web Services hosted Netflix’s streaming platform, handling 250 million users’ requests daily.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A patient receives chemotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.",
      "domain": "healthcare"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Goldman Sachs advised The New York Times Company on its $4.1 billion sale of The Boston Globe.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "role.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "client",
    "clients"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive component 'receive.communication' to align with definition. Definition retained as is because it correctly describes the concept but relied on an unlisted component."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-client.business"
}