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cust

cust is the abbreviation of custody.

cust is the abbreviation of customer.

Meaning of custody

Noun

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

  1. (usually) The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
    • The court awarded custody to the child's father.
  2. (usually) Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
    • I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
  3. (usually) The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
    • He was mistreated while in police custody.
  4. (usually) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
    • The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

Meaning of customer

Noun

customer (plural customers)

  1. (obsolete) A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
  2. A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so.
    • Every person who passes by is a potential customer.
    Synonyms:
    patron, client, solicitor
  3. (informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
    • a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
  4. (India, historical) A native official who exacted customs duties.
    • His houses […] are seized on by the Customer.1609, Danvers, Letters, i. 25; and comp. Foster, ibid. ii. 225

Proper noun capitalized: Cust

Cust (plural Custs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of cust

Noun
pluralcusts
Proper noun
pluralCusts

Questions about cust

What does cust mean?
Cust means a surname.
What is cust the abbreviation of?
Cust is the abbreviation of custody.
What part of speech is cust?
Cust is a proper noun.

Words near cust in the dictionary

  1. Cusson
  2. Cussons
  3. cussword
  4. cusswords
  5. cussy
  6. cust
  7. Cust.
  8. custard
  9. custard apple
  10. custard apples
  11. custard cannon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cust (page history and authors); Cust (page history and authors); custody (page history and authors); customer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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