Definition of customer
1 : one that purchases a commodity or service The customer used a credit card for the purchase.
2 : an individual usually having some specified distinctive trait a real tough customer … let me give you the advice of an old and world-weary customer. — Flannery O'Connor
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Examples of customer in a Sentence
She is one of our best customers.
She's a pretty cool customer.
Recent Examples of customer from the Web
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Lender spent the most in at least nine years on card rewards Profit falls 33% as expenses climb, revenue is little changed Wooing those affluent credit-card customers is getting expensive.
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Instacart is offering customers a free one-year subscription of Instacart Express, but that offer expires Friday.
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To show Mount Washington their appreciation, the store planned to give each customer a free doughnut Tuesday, according to Facebook.
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Without healthy customers subsidizing the sick, premiums and other costs would soar for plans that accept chronically ill patients, experts said.
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The Echo Look, Echo Show, Fire TV set, and Dash Wand have expanded its reach among Amazon customers, but the U11 represents a whole new game.
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The law’s sponsors had hoped to achieve universal health insurance, but retreated from that ambitious goal in large part because insurers wanted to keep non-elderly customers.
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Additionally, one lucky customer will win free ice cream for life.
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In April, Walmart began offering a pickup discount on certain online-only items that customers can have shipped to a local store for pick up.
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Origin and Etymology of customer
Middle English custumer, from custume —see 1custom
Other Business Terms
CUSTOMER Defined for English Language Learners
customer
playDefinition of customer for English Language Learners
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: someone who buys goods or services from a business
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: a person who has a particular quality
CUSTOMER Defined for Kids
customer
playDefinition of customer for Students
: a person who buys from or uses the services of a company especially regularly
Law Dictionary
customer
Legal Definition of customer
1 : a person or business that purchases a commodity or service
2a : a person or entity having an account with a bank or on whose behalf the bank has agreed to collect items b : a person or entity for whom an issuer issues a letter of credit
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