Entry Word: customer

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business <the store greatly values its regular customers>

Synonyms client, guest, patron

Related Words consumer, end user, user; buyer, purchaser; browser, prospect, shopper, window-shopper

Near Antonyms merchant, seller, vendor (also vender)

2 a member of the human race <he's one tough customer, so youʼd better not cross him> — see human