Meaning of customer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
   obsolete
2. client
3. A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
4. habitual; usually done etc. It is customary to eat turkey for Christmas dinner. tradisie عادي، اعتيادي، مألوف обичаен habitual obvyklý, tradiční üblich almindelig; sædvanlig συνηθισμένος, εθιμοτυπικόςcostumbre tavapärane وابسته به عادت؛ عادتی؛ معمول tavallinen habituel, traditionnelנהוג रूढ़गत uobičajen szokásos tradisi sem tíðkast abituale 習慣的な 관습적인 įprastas, įprastinis parasts; ierasts adat gebruikelijkvanlig, i samsvar med skikk og bruk, alminnelig zwyczajowy عادت پوری ارتباط لری، معمول ، ...
   etc
5. A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
   informal
6. tradisioneel بصورة اعتياديّه обикновено habitualmente obvykle üblicherweise almindeligvis; sædvanligvis κατά το έθιμο habitualmente tavapäraselt معمولاً؛ عرفاً tavallisesti habituellementכנהוג पारंपरिक uobičajeno szokás szerint biasanya vanalega; á venjulegan hátt abitualmente 習慣で 관습적으로 įprastai, paprastai parasti; ierasti kebiasaannya gebruikelijkvanligvis, i sin alminnelighet zwyczajowo معمولاُ ، مروجاُ habitualmente (în mod) obişnuit привычно obvikle običajno uobičajeno vanligt, sedvanligt...
7. A native official who exacted customs duties.
   India, historical
8. One that buys goods or services, as from a store or business.
9. Informal An individual with whom one must deal: That teacher is a tough customer.
   Informal
10. (Commerce) a person who buys
11. informal a person with whom one has dealings: a cool customer.
    informal
12. a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
13. Informal. a person one has dealings with: a tough customer.
14. 'customer'A customer is someone who buys something, especially from a shop.She's one of our regular customers.
15. 'client'A client is a person or company that receives a service from a professional person or organization in return for payment.A solicitor and his client were sitting at the next table.

Equivalents

Examples

“Every person who passes by is a potential customer.”

“Airlines are the chief customers of the commercial divisions of large-aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer.”

“a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer”

“Pug could just see Slote's pale face under his fur hat. "I don't agree with you on that. He's a pretty tough customer, Hopkins."”

“This switch led to Philip Hammond becoming the Transport Secretary and he quickly proved to be a tricky customer, asking questions about rail spending and reining it back whenever possible.”

“His houses […] are seized on by the Customer.”

“The Customer should come and visit them.”

“The several affronts, insolences, and abuses dayly put upon us by Boolchund, our chief Customer”

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