noun

• 1A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business.

  ‘Mr Harrison was a regular customer at the Golden Lion’

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  • ‘There are some welcome concessions over pay for our customer service colleagues.’
  • ‘This service allows customers to book flights and hotel rooms in the same purchase.’
  • ‘Employers can access funding to improve the customer service skills of their workers.’
  • ‘Place decisions refer to the ease of access which potential customers have to a service.’
  • ‘Management has told customers that delays in service are due to staff training days.’
  • ‘This may look like a recessionary move, but it is actually a canny service to customers.’
  • ‘If we do not try to find a need and try to sell the customer a new service then we are disciplined.’
  • ‘In a digital scenario, customers cost nothing to service but much to obtain and retain.’
  • ‘It would be easy to make these cuts by diminishing the service we give customers.’
  • ‘It is essential to maintain a water service in which customers can have confidence.’
  • ‘There is a need for us to continuously upgrade the quality of service we give to customers.’
  • ‘I have lost business and my regular customers are going to have nowhere nearby to go.’
  • ‘Kinner also believes that the company can improve its service to fleet customers.’
  • ‘The court found that a takeover would not harm customers buying business software.’
  • ‘I want to do more and more business with my customers in the area of communications.’
  • ‘In the worst cases, it took a customer three weeks to get through to customer services.’
  • ‘She said traders desperately wanted a variety of shops to attract more customers.’
  • ‘The sale has worked well and the couple have seen customers waiting for the shop to open in the morning.’
  • ‘When customers are scarce, businesses will have to compete for them and cater to them.’
  • ‘Both officers grabbed him by the arms in a thumb lock and marched him out of the shop past the customers.’

  Synonyms

  shopper, consumer, buyer, purchaser

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• 2with adjective A person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal.

  ‘he's a tough customer’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Hasseck said one way of deciding how to deal with awkward customers was to work out what kind they were.’
  • ‘The overseas customer to whom the goods are exported may or may not be a genuine purchaser of them.’
  • ‘The boy's clearly a slippery customer by this point, but the worst was yet to come.’
  • ‘It would not surprise me to see this speedy customer produce a repeat performance tomorrow.’
  • ‘The Internet became truly worthwhile at last and I was a very happy customer indeed.’
  • ‘It's been an amazing draw for us but we felt in Manchester there is that urban customer.’

  Synonyms

  person, individual, creature, fellow, man, woman

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