Definitions for customer
ˈkʌs tə mərcus·tomer

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. customer, clientnoun

   someone who pays for goods or services

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.3 / 6 votes

1. customernoun

   A patron; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

   Every person who passes by is a potential customer.

2. customernoun

   A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.

   a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Customernoun

   One who frequents any place of sale for the sake of purchasing.

   Etymology: from custom.

   One would think it Overdone’s house; for here be many old customers. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.

   A wealthy poet takes more pains to hire
   A flatt’ring audience, than poor tradesmen do
   To persuade customers to buy their goods. Wentworth Dillon.

   Don’t you hear how lord Strut has bespoke his liveries at Lewis Baboon’s shop? Don’t you see how that old fox steals away your customers, and turns you out of your business every day. Arbuthnot.

   Those papers are grown a necessary part in coffeehouse furniture, and may be read by customers of all ranks for curiosity or amusement. Jonathan Swift, Project for the Advancem. of Religion.

   I shewed you a piece of black and white stuff, just sent from the dyer, which you were pleased to approve of, and be my customer for. Jonathan Swift.

   2. A common women. This sense is now obsolete.

   I marry her! —— What, a customer? Pr’ythee, bear some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholsome. William Shakespeare, Othello.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Customer

   In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.2 / 6 votes

1. Customernoun

   one who collect customs; a toll gatherer

2. Customernoun

   one who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer

3. Customernoun

   a person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank

4. Customernoun

   a peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer

5. Customernoun

   a lewd woman

6. Etymology: [A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.2 / 5 votes

1. Customer

   A customer is the recipient of a good, service, product, or idea, obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier for a monetary or other valuable consideration. Customers are generally categorized into two types: ⁕An intermediate customer or trade customer who is a dealer that purchases goods for re-sale. ⁕An ultimate customer who does not in turn re-sell the things bought but either passes them to the consumer or actually is the consumer. A customer may or may not also be a consumer, but the two notions are distinct, even though the terms are commonly confused. A customer purchases goods; a consumer uses them. An ultimate customer may be a consumer as well, but just as equally may have purchased items for someone else to consume. An intermediate customer is not a consumer at all. The situation is somewhat complicated in that ultimate customers of so-called industrial goods and services either themselves use up the goods and services that they buy, or incorporate them into other finished products, and so are technically consumers, too. However, they are rarely called that, but are rather called industrial customers or business-to-business customers. Similarly, customers who buy services rather than goods are rarely called consumers.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. customer

   A person who purchases commodities, goods, products or services.

   The customer can always teach us something we need to know.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Consumer

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'customer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2267

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'customer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2104

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'customer' in Nouns Frequency: #388

Anagrams for customer »

1. costumer

How to pronounce customer?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say customer in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of customer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of customer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of customer in a Sentence

1. Mark Silverstein:

   There’s no law that says that a cake-maker has to write obscenities in the cake just because the customer wants it.

2. Rick Nelson:

   We've shared these options with our global cargo customer base and are getting some strong interest from customers wanting to ship to and from Shanghai, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sydney and Melbourne.

3. James Cooper:

   On critical issues such as the sale of products that may threaten the safety or well-being of communities, corporate boards must exercise their oversight role to assure balance among customer, shareholder, and societal interests.

4. Allen Whiley:

   There is a demand from our customer for heavier market weights, 5-10 pounds heavier than two years ago, at the same time our sow productivity has increased, meaning there are more pigs weaned and marketed per sow.

5. Bobby Thompson:

   This is happening everywhere, this company is more concerned about its brand than it is about customer safety.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=customer
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Customer
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=customer
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/customer
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=customer