customer
∞
1.0
- noun
- /ˈkʌstəmər/
:
cliente
- Our store is offering a discount to all customers who make a purchase today.
- customer service
- customer satisfaction
- serve customers
Your listeners or your customers are the experts.
- Your listeners or your customers are the experts.
- And so who do you define as your customers for your services?
- And you know, some customers are the worst.
- What fabrics are going to serve my customer and at what price point?
- And I must admit, I hung out in their customer lounges for years.
- American Express caters to the higher income customer, the premium brand.
- What's your brand, who's your customer, what's your sales price?
- That's right, not just new customers, returning customers as well.
- So same, same customer, just a little older.
- So they weren't selling directly to customers, with rare exceptions.
- Now in those days, the big customers paid us in cash.
- And so she's a much more valuable customer than Jack is by a lot.
Examples
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For example, at the computer hardware store, the customer can specify that he can spend a maximum of $2,000.
Academic text (2011) -
Companies can only succeed if they are flexible enough to follow customer demand.
Academic text (2011) -
Now in those days the big customers paid us in cash.
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We have an increasing number of customers who are women.
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The bar was starting to fill up with customers waiting for the dining room to open.
Fiction book (1990) -
That's right, not just new customers, returning customers as well.
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Sit tight, chefs, while our customers taste your dishes.
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There are potentially a million customers for basketball shoes in the United States, who would wear the shoes only when they're playing basketball.
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The signs remind customers to watch their things: "Theft doesn't take a break."
Academic text (2011) -
If you're not providing value to a customer, it doesn't work.
Synonyms
∞
2.0
A person or company that uses services from a business
∞
1.8
A person who buys and uses goods or services
431
1.0
A person who pays money to get goods or services
29
2.8
A person who buys goods or property
Compounds
7
2.0
A team at a company that helps people with problems and questions about products or services
How Purposeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Customer comes from the same root as custom, which once meant 'habit' or 'something done again and again'. So a customer was originally someone who came to a shop again and again to buy things, and today it means a person or organization that buys goods or services.