customers

noun

plural of customer
1
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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2
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 About one third of its customers had adopted that safeguard, which will now become mandatory by year’s end. — Soo Youn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 Likewise for Ameren customers downstate, higher electric bills are expected this summer. — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 Flock's customers can also limit which types of offenses outside agencies can search for in its system, and law enforcement will have to turn on a tool that aims to flag abnormal search behavior. — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own gas station Just a small booth with barely enough room for the attendant on shift to squeeze in, a place where customers could buy cigarettes and pay for their gas. — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026 The first 50 customers in line at each store receive a free Goodwill tote bag. — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026 Virgin Galactic's next customers will have to wait a bit longer to get off the ground. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026 There's the safety side of the playbook — making sure that we're not impacted, our customers are safe. — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026 The launch comes alongside a new CNG supply hub in Houston, Texas, which will support customers across the Gulf Coast. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for customers
  1. clients
  2. people
  3. patrons
  4. guys
  5. guests
  6. men
  7. lives
  8. things
Noun
  • These ritualists served a range of clients, whether African Americans or members of other ethnic groups, and sometimes built lucrative businesses around their services.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Below, the experts dive into what colors and cuts their clients will be asking for this season.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 14 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
  • Kulusich says she's witnessed other Disneyland patrons touch character actors or ask them inappropriate questions.
    — Owen Carry, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The Buñuelian skeptic in me also shirks at Fried’s approving references to Diderot’s petite église invisible, the small hidden church whose members—painters, critics, curators, patrons—are the vision-gifted serious pursuers of art history.
    — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of patrons
Noun
  • Was there anything that wasn’t in this restaurant before that you guys threw in specifically for this episode that didn’t exist before or after in the restaurant?
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Not even the guys who left screaming, and some left screaming.
    — Jeff Rabhan, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of guys
Noun
  • The casino said all the people involved were employees of the restaurant and that no guests were involved.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Brisbane, Australia — One of Australia’s most high-profile murder cases is back in court where a possible retrial, or an even longer prison sentence, awaits the home cook who used toxic mushrooms to kill three lunch guests.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of guests
Noun
  • He was seized by three unidentified men, who later headed toward the western Tillaberi region of Niger, where Islamist militants are active, Reuters news agency reported at the time, citing an unnamed diplomat.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • These men must be honored for producing innovative products that improve millions of people’s lives.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of men
Noun
  • Digital media and the people who star in it have been cultural mainstays for teens’ entire lives, so creating social media, video or podcast content seems a natural, albeit nontraditional, career path.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • These men must be honored for producing innovative products that improve millions of people’s lives.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of lives
Noun
  • Manchester City’s defence was wide open in Sunday’s Community Shield defeat to Arsenal and that could be a sign of things to come now that Rodri is playing for Barcelona in La Liga.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • And if history is any indication, expect safety Tre’von Moehrig to be in the middle of things when the pads start poppin’ at the Panthers’ joint practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars at the Jags’ practice facility.
    — Joseph Person, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of things

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