What does customer mean?
Definitions for customer
ˈkʌs tə mərcus·tomer
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word customer.
Princeton's WordNet
customer, clientnoun
someone who pays for goods or services
Wiktionary
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.
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 Dictionary
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.
I marry her! —— What, a customer? Pr’ythee, bear some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholsome. William Shakespeare, Othello.
Webster Dictionary
Customernoun
one who collect customs; a toll gatherer
Customernoun
one who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer
Customernoun
a person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank
Customernoun
a peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer
Customernoun
a lewd woman
Etymology: [A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom.]
Freebase
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
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
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Rank popularity for the word 'customer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2267
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Rank popularity for the word 'customer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2104
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'customer' in Nouns Frequency: #388
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of customer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of customer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of customer in a Sentence
The success of a company depends on the smile on the employee's face and the sparkle in the customer's eyes.”
A lot of how we talk and interact, certainly in customer support, is using a lot of idioms or terms that are specific to an industry.
While the economy is doing very well, our core customer continues to struggle.
I've had a long career working in an industry that is all about safety and delivering customer experiences a safe way, obviously aerospace is a different technology. So that's why I'll be diving deep... That is part of my learning process.
You can't transfer the extra cost (of power) to the customer because their income hasn't increased.
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Translations for customer
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- زبون, عميلArabic
- клиент, купувачBulgarian
- clientCatalan, Valencian
- zákazníkCzech
- cwsmerWelsh
- kundeDanish
- Kunde, Käufer, AbnehmerGerman
- πελάτισσα, πελάτηςGreek
- klientoEsperanto
- clienteSpanish
- klientEstonian
- bezeroBasque
- مشتریPersian
- asiakasFinnish
- kundiFaroese
- clientFrench
- צרכן, צרכניתHebrew
- vevő, ügyfélHungarian
- հաճախորդArmenian
- klientoIdo
- skiptavinur, kaupandi, viðskiptavinurIcelandic
- clienteItalian
- צרכןHebrew
- 客, 顧客, お客さんJapanese
- მყიდველი, კლიენტიGeorgian
- ಗ್ರಾಹಕKannada
- 손님Korean
- emptorLatin
- apataki, kiritakiMāori
- муштерија, клиент, купувачMacedonian
- үйлчлүүлэгчMongolian
- pelangganMalay
- kundeNorwegian
- klantDutch
- klientPolish
- freguesa, freguês, clientePortuguese
- клиентка, заказчица, клиент, заказчикRussian
- mušterija, купац, kupovac, kupac, муштерија, куповацSerbo-Croatian
- klientAlbanian
- kundSwedish
- wateja, mtejaSwahili
- வாடிக்கையாளர்Tamil
- ลูกค้าThai
- müşteri, alıcıTurkish
- khách hàngVietnamese
- קונהYiddish
- 顾客Chinese
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