CUSTOMER (customer)

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Irregular inflected form: customer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does customer mean? 

• CUSTOMER (noun)
  The noun CUSTOMER has 1 sense:

1. someone who pays for goods or services

  Familiarity information: CUSTOMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSTOMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who pays for goods or services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

client; customer

Hypernyms ("customer" is a kind of...):

consumer (a person who uses goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "customer"):

buyer; emptor; purchaser; vendee (a person who buys)

guest (a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.)

frequenter; patron (a regular customer)

policyholder (a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written)

shopper (someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy)

disburser; expender; spender (someone who spends money to purchase goods or services)

reader; subscriber (someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication)

taker (one who accepts an offer)

warrantee (a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given)

john; trick; whoremaster; whoremonger (a prostitute's customer)

Holonyms ("customer" is a member of...):

business relation (a relation between different business enterprises)

 Context examples 

Performing a review of the processes used in developing systems to ensure that products are designed and produced and services are developed to meet or exceed device specifications and customer expectations.

(Device Quality Control Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The customers were mostly seafaring men, and they talked so loudly that I hung at the door, almost afraid to enter.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This means, for example, if you bring in new clients or customers, you will retain them, and their support will add to your sense of security.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A number of at-home pregnancy tests were recalled in Australia last week after customers and clinics concluded false negative results were received.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

The customers all completed the EQ online and provided a saliva sample for genetic analysis.

(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)

I do; especially when I've customers like you to deal with.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Samsung offered replacement units to all of its customers, before reports resurfaced of overheating with the new devices, raising fresh doubts about the firm's quality control abilities

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)

“I have some record of the fellow, and he is a rough customer.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Telegraphic inquiries had been already made which showed that Marx knew nothing of his customer save that he was a good payer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have a hostel of their own now, somewhere on the banks of the Garonne, where the landlord drinks so much of the liquor that there is little left for the customers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)