1
as in client
a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business
the store greatly values its regular customers
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as in person
a member of the human race
he's one tough customer, so you'd better not cross him
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Recent Examples of customer
Refinance Interest rates are moderating, and Edmunds is seeing an uptick in customers seeking to refinance car loans at lower rates.
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Each new Songmont model undergoes wear testing; the brand fine-tunes and iterates its prototypes based on customer feedback.
—Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
The new sauce—part of Taco Bell’s commitment to bringing more dipping options to customers, driven by consumer feedback—combines Frank’s RedHot with the fast-food chain’s signature Diablo heat plus Spicy Ranch.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Some state agencies already use AI to power chatbots to streamline customer service or extract data from outdated mainframe computers to format and modernize it for future use.
—Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2025
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Each new Songmont model undergoes wear testing; the brand fine-tunes and iterates its prototypes based on customer feedback.
—Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
The new sauce—part of Taco Bell’s commitment to bringing more dipping options to customers, driven by consumer feedback—combines Frank’s RedHot with the fast-food chain’s signature Diablo heat plus Spicy Ranch.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Some state agencies already use AI to power chatbots to streamline customer service or extract data from outdated mainframe computers to format and modernize it for future use.
—Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for customer
Noun
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That posed a challenge for DBS, which serves clients across China, Southeast Asia, and India.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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When Cook began working for the law firm Bose, McKinney & Evans to represent developers who do business with the city in February 2021, Andrews, as DMD director, oversaw the city’s negotiations with Cook’s clients.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
15 Oct. 2025
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Besides religion, what are other possible reasons a person might have executed a forgery?—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Most recently, she was appointed the newest royal patron of the Chartered College of Teaching, a position previously held by her late grandfather, Prince Philip.—
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Kabul wants to hedge against its deteriorating relationship with its former patron Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of harboring a separate but allied group that has carried out deadly attacks inside Pakistan.—
Happymon Jacob,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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The interim coach that season is the same guy who will try to devise a plan to slow the Panthers’ rushing attack Sunday — Jets defensive coordinator Steve Wilks.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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And there was the Michigan accent and the fact that the guy doesn’t shut up.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
15 Oct. 2025
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The hotel contains 15 rooms and a pool exclusively for guests that overlooks the ocean.—
Emilio Parra Doiztua,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Officials said one of the doors led to where Shapiro’s family and guests slept.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Jones was chosen from among seven applicants -- six men and one woman -- living in Zone 4.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2025
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By the mid-1970s, women spent much less time cooking, and men picked up little of the slack.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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That’s partly because scientists know relatively little about what makes marine life sick.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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Join 400,000+ life-long learners exploring and improving with the world’s biggest thinkers.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Customer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/customer. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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