customer

American  

[kuhs-tuh-mer] / ˈkʌs tə mər /

noun

1. a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.

2. Informal. a person one has to deal with.

   a tough customer; a cool customer.

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customer British  

/ ˈkʌstəmə /

noun

1. a person who buys

2. informal a person with whom one has dealings

   a cool customer

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customer Idioms  

1. see ugly customer.

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Etymology

Origin of customer

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; custom + -er ¹; compare Middle English customer “collector of customs,” from Anglo-French; Old French costumier, cognate with Medieval Latin custumārius; customary

Example Sentences

Cornwall-Jones wanted to thank customers for their support over the years.

From BBC

An Anthropic spokesperson said the release was caused by "human error, not a security breach," and that "no sensitive customer data or credentials were exposed or involved".

From BBC

These tools track their productivity, customer interactions and real-time behavior — including, in some cases, audio and video surveillance on the job.

From MarketWatch

The numbers come from very different sources: ADP’s data draws on the company’s internal figures on how many roles its huge pool of business customers are adding or subtracting.

From The Wall Street Journal

The leak of “some internal source code” didn’t expose any customer information or data, a spokesman for Anthropic said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• client
• consumer
• patron
• purchaser