Word: clientelism
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: cli
en
te
li
sm
Definition: A political system based on personal relations rather than personal merits.
Morphemes:
Affix: clientele
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: cliēns
Language: la
Decoded: cliens
PoS: Noun
Meaning: customer
Affix: -ism
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form names of a tendency of behaviour, action, state, condition or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology or principle or lack thereof.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ισμός
Language: grc
Decoded: -ismos
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms abstract nouns.