paying customer
noun
: a customer who buys something
We're trying to attract more paying customers through our website.
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Perhaps the pressure will come from the ultimate paying customer, the employer, and from Gen AI.
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Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
And there’s no guarantee that a site visitor will turn into a paying customer.
—Jasmine Mithani, Them., 3 Sep. 2025
Three short months later on Jan. 4, 2018, Workstream had its first paying customer — Coupa Cafe paid Lim and his co-founders $100.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025
Space tourism missions have happened multiple times before, beginning in 2001 when the US businessman Dennis Tito became the first paying customer aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station (ISS).
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
The motel is closed to the typical paying customer, but there are still no vacancies.
—Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
People with even minimal access to such a network—say a paying customer, a low-level employee, or an attacker who has already gained limited entry—can exploit the vulnerabilities to infect connected devices with a malicious UEFI.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
Advertisement More than two hours passed before the next paying customer.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
The consensus was that the city’s Black entrepreneurs cared more about clout chasing than customer service and refused to treat anyone who was not a celebrity with the respect due to a paying customer.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 2 Nov. 2023
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Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
And there’s no guarantee that a site visitor will turn into a paying customer.
—Jasmine Mithani, Them., 3 Sep. 2025
Three short months later on Jan. 4, 2018, Workstream had its first paying customer — Coupa Cafe paid Lim and his co-founders $100.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025
Space tourism missions have happened multiple times before, beginning in 2001 when the US businessman Dennis Tito became the first paying customer aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station (ISS).
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
The motel is closed to the typical paying customer, but there are still no vacancies.
—Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
People with even minimal access to such a network—say a paying customer, a low-level employee, or an attacker who has already gained limited entry—can exploit the vulnerabilities to infect connected devices with a malicious UEFI.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
Advertisement More than two hours passed before the next paying customer.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
The consensus was that the city’s Black entrepreneurs cared more about clout chasing than customer service and refused to treat anyone who was not a celebrity with the respect due to a paying customer.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 2 Nov. 2023
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“Paying customer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paying%20customer. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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