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Customer - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Customer : (noun)
1: someone who pays for goods or services [syn: client]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Customer : \Cus"tom*er\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m*[~e]r), n. [A doublet of
customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See
Custom.]
1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.]
The customers of the small or petty custom and of
the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey
cloths. --Hakluyt.
2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a
trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
He has got at last the character of a good customer;
by this means he gets credit for something
considerable, and then never pays for it.
--Goldsmith.
3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the
customers of a bank. --J. A. H. Murray.
4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer
customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
5. A lewd woman. [Obs.] --Shak.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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Example Usage of Customer |
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carter_realtor: Just had the best restaurant Customer service in my life at J.Alexander's on Ashford Dunwoody. |
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morganplex: I wonder who their target Customer was with this packaging?? :P http://twitpic.com/t4whv |
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pizzagalaxy: New Customer at Garofola's Italiano, Didn't say how they heard about us. |
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