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"clientism" has 2 syllables: client-ism.
noun
"Clientism" has 2 syllables: client · ism.
Clientism: 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.
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