customer.
A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
Meaning & usage
A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so.
Every person who passes by is a potential customer.
Airlines are the chief customers of the commercial divisions of large-aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer.
A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
A native official who exacted customs duties.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English custumer, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adjective), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom. By surface analysis, custom + -er.
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