CUSTOMER

customer, client

(noun) someone who pays for goods or services

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

customer (plural customers)

A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.

Anagrams

• costumer

Source: Wiktionary


Cus"tom*er (ks"tm-r), n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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