CUSTOMERS Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

customers

noun

plural of customer

as in clients

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 people

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 customers BlackBerry sells encrypted and secure communications products to customers like governments. — Arjun Kharpal,kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 Potential customers could include defense manufacturers, semiconductor producers, energy storage developers and electric vehicle companies. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026 As a re-export hub, the UAE processed shipments from foreign suppliers reluctant to deal directly with Iranian customers. — Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 Again, the majority of customers are not so much into [pure] horsepower. — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026 In North Richland Hills, about 2,000 customers were without power after the storms Wednesday, according to a Facebook post on the city’s page. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026 Taken together, all this may suggest American frontier labs have found the limit on what customers will pay for the newest, most expensive model, and open-source may just be stepping in to fill that gap. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 It was also sold directly to customers through online orders and shipped frozen, the recall notice said. — Julia Hawkins, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Charter and Cox customers will likely not see a change in service. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for customers

Noun

Defense attorneys in both cases argued that the defendants’ intent was in question, raising in argument the possibility that their clients were not trying to cause serious bodily injury or death.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026
Kaufman was a Jewish émigré from Buenos Aires who had clients in Manhattan and had been commissioned to build another house on the island for shoe designer Danny Berk.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of clients

Noun

Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026

Definition of people

Noun

Some of his bar inventions, for instance, were less grand thematic ideas and simply tricks to keep patrons indoors and ordering.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Matisse couldn’t have felt neutrally about Amélie making crowns for the same class of wealthy patrons who refused to support him.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of patrons

Noun

The event was full of food and fun for both the adult guests and the twins’ little friends.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
The current bowling alley sits in the basement of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, just west of the White House, and is reserved for White House aides and their guests.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of guests

Noun

Two men accused of armed robberies during Facebook Marketplace transactions were arrested in Fort Worth, police said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026
In 1995, Mladic’s troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe.

— Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of men

Noun

Anedda’s way of capturing different moments from different linguistic or interpretive points of view allows the everyday elements of our lives to find space in poetry, democratically.

— Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
During their reign in Hollywood’s Golden Age, their lives and cinematic work played out ideals about femininity and its expectations in American culture writ large.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

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