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customer

[ kuhs-tuh-mer ]

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.



customer

/ ˈkʌstəmə /

noun

  1. a person who buys
  2. informal.
    a person with whom one has dealings

    a cool customer

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of customer1

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
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Idioms and Phrases

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Example Sentences

That version doesn’t have a disc drive and requires customers to purchase and download games digitally.

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I suspect I’m one of many prospective customers considering a similar purchase this season.

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Earlier this month the company reported its second-quarter results, revealing that it had more than 130,000 paying customers in the quarter, up 30% year over year.

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One such senior engineer knew that Boeing was delivering Maxes to customers without a required alert in 2017 and 2018, yet didn’t notify FAA, the report said.

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On one side, since March we have kept adding more customers.

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The police suspect that the other unaccounted for 643,000 bitcoins, were removed from customer accounts via an unknown party.

For instance, Best Buy has over 40 million members in its customer loyalty program, Reward Zone.

One customer retooled a Nintendo Wii with its innards switched out for glued pennies.

The customer-service representative said they had notified the billing service used by my doctors that I was not “in network.”

Synchronoss only got paid when a customer activated on AT&T, so each of those jailbreakers was costing Synchronoss money.

I am afraid your father wouldnt welcome me as a customer, said Jess, gravely.

The name was quite familiar to her, though the lady in question was not a customer of Madame Malmaison's.

One of the shopmen stood at the door looking after his elegant customer's carriage.

Rashid retired to wrap up the purchase, and with it a second and smaller package was slipped into the customer's hand.

On the advice of his customer, the poet Parny, he had taken the name of Marius, a sobriquet which stuck to the establishment.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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