Definitions for customer
ˈkʌs tə mərcus·tomer

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. customer, client(noun)

   someone who pays for goods or services

Wiktionary(4.33 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. customer(Noun)

   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. customer(Noun)

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

   a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer

Webster Dictionary(4.17 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Customer(noun)

   one who collect customs; a toll gatherer

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

2. Customer(noun)

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

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

3. Customer(noun)

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

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

4. Customer(noun)

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

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

5. Customer(noun)

   a lewd woman

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

Freebase(3.20 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Contribution(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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  

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

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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. Chris Lindland:

   Check that out, there's a customer with Dress Pants Sweatpants on meeting Kim Jong-un, these are the things that land in our inbox.

2. Abby Schreiber:

   I don’t think it’s necessarily unwise for a business to make a political statement, particularly privately-owned businesses in the fashion sector, said Abby Schreiber, managing editor at Paper Magazine. Fashion has always been about expression, provocation and, not infrequently, politics and, to that end, these designers ’ refusal to dress Melania Trump is not, in and of itself, unusual for this industry. fashion designers have long attempted to tell a story about their brand and vision and to articulate a feeling, emotion or sense of who their customer or ‘ muse ’ is, Schreiber said. And for those designers who are troubled by the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that surrounded Trump’s campaign, it may make sense for them to want to distance their brand and their vision from it. But Robert Casey, President of modeling agency Maggie, Inc., offered a simple solution.

3. Boeing Co -LRB- BA.N -RRB-:

   We are taking steps to make sure we eliminate FOD (foreign object debris) from any and all aircraft. This is unacceptable and won't be tolerated on any Boeing aircraft when it's delivered to the customer.

4. Peter Drucker:

   The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

5. Executive Chairman Lim Wee Chai:

   We manage their volume, limit them to buy so much per customer. We have to manage but it's a good problem for us to solve.

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