clientitis
nounEtymology
From client + -itis.
Definitions
The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the…
The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the officials and people of the host country as "clients", and thus lose touch with the norms and aims of their home country.
- Their relationship with the governments in their region is usually one of warmth and understanding, often described as “clientitis” or “clientism.”
- We also learned two new words: “clientitis” and “ambassadoritis”. Clientitis is the disease of those enthralled by a host country that they promote its interests, rather than their own country's.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for clientitis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA