Definition of customer in English:
customer
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noun
1A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
‘Mr. Harrison was a regular customer at the Golden Lion’- ‘customer service’
- ‘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.’
shopper, consumer, buyer, purchaserView synonyms2A person or thing of a specified kind that one has to deal with.
‘the fish is a slippery customer and very hard to catch’- ‘Jon won over Lucie's father, but her mother is a tough customer’
- ‘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.’
person, individual, creature, fellow, man, womanView synonyms
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