customer
/ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ//ˈkʌs.tə.mə/
customer noun: a habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
Noun
customer (plural customers)
- A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
- 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.
- Airlines are the chief customers of the commercial divisions of large-aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer.
- A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
- 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."1971, Herman Wouk, chapter 52, in The Winds of War
- 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
- The Customer should come and visit them.1615, Sir T. Roe, Hak. Soc. i. 44
customer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
customer in Hindi
- one who purchases or receives a product or service
- ग्राहक grāhak, मुश्तरी muśtarī
customer in Tamil
- (obsolete) habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client
- வாடிக்கையாளர் vāṭikkaiyāḷar, வாடிக்கைக்காரன் vāṭikkaikkāraṉ
- one who purchases or receives a product or service
- வாடிக்கையாளர் vāṭikkaiyāḷar
customer in Urdu
- one who purchases or receives a product or service
- مُشْتَری muśtarī, گِراہَک girāhak
customer in Bengali
- one who purchases or receives a product or service
- খরিদ্দার khoriddar
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- customer in Telugu
- ఖాతాదారుడు khātādāruḍu
- customer in Malayalam
- പറ്റുവരവുകാരൻ, അടവുകാരൻ, പതിവുകാരൻ, പറ്റുകാരൻ
- customer in Kannada
- ಗ್ರಾಹಕ grāhaka
- customer in Punjabi
- ਗਾਹਕ
- customer in Gujarati
- ગ્રાહક grāhak
- customer in Odia
- ଗ୍ରାହକ
- customer in Pashto
- مشتري moštari
- customer in Arabic
- زَبُون zabūn, عَمِيل ʕamīl
- customer in Malay
- pelanggan
- customer in Indonesian
- pelanggan
- customer in Thai
- ลูกค้า lûuk-káa
- customer in Vietnamese
- khách hàng
- customer in Myanmar
- ဈေးဝယ် jhe:wai, ဖောက်သည် hpauksany, ဝယ်သူ waisu
Examples of customer in a sentence
- 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.2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Ten eventful years and plenty of talking points”, in Rail, page 54:
- The several affronts, insolences, and abuses dayly put upon us by Boolchund, our chief Customer1682, Hedges, Diary [Hak. Soc. i. 33]
Synonyms of customer
Forms of customer
| plural | customers |
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Origin of customer
From Middle English custumer, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adjective), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom. By surface analysis, custom + -er.
Words formed from customer
- custie
- customer account
- customer base
- customer car
- customer care
- customercentric
- customer experience
- customerize
- customerless
- customerlike
- customer-oriented
- customer relationship
- customer research
- customer resistance
- customer service
- customership
- customer site
- customer success
- customer success manager
- customer support
- customer-to-customer
- entrepreneurial customer
- investomer
- multicustomer
- noncustomer
- promote to customer
- pure customer
- the customer is always right
- ugly customer
Phrases with customer
Questions about customer
- What does customer mean?
- Customer means a habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
- What is customer in Hindi?
- Customer in Hindi is ग्राहक (grāhak), मुश्तरी (muśtarī). See Customer meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use customer in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is customer?
- Customer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce customer?
- Customer is pronounced /ˈkʌs.tə.mə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of customer?
- The plural of customer is customers.
Words near customer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: customer (page history and authors); ఖాతాదారుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); customer (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಗ್ರಾಹಕ (Kannada) (page history and authors); customer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ગ્રાહક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); customer (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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