customer

noun

ˈkə-stə-mər How to pronounce customer (audio)
Definition of customernext
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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2
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 Wealthfront offers conventional and jumbo loans to existing Wealthfront customers. — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 For restaurants, that turns a modest purchase into a stand-alone occasion and creates another opportunity to bring customers through the door. — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 His ambition is mostly to lure new customers — including the #BookTok generation — off their screens and into the stores to experience the IRL pleasures of book shopping. — Andy Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 Between 2015 and 2019, Maslow stole commissions by using the identities of customers and other agents, according to the Maryland attorney general's office. — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for customer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for customer
  1. client
  2. person
  3. patron
  4. guy
  5. guest
  6. man
  7. life
Noun
  • Bank of America analyst Haas Liu said in a Monday note to clients that the deal is likely to be more about component purchases for Musk's product lines across SpaceX and Tesla .
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Uniting the case-of-the-week elements, which flow extremely smoothly from one episode to the next, is a bigger mystery involving Bo (Rob McClure), a whistleblowing client with a mind-blowing secret.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of client
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  • Meanwhile, America is now in the war, and veteran Adam is seemingly the only person in Salinas who realizes that this isn’t necessarily a noble thing.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Now suppose the group of 300 proposes its own three-person slate.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of person
Noun
  • Whether these portraits represent past patrons, whose stories once unspooled over these same steaming cups, Kim declines to comment.
    — James Marsh, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
  • One of the most romantic venues is Naam 1608, set in a traditional wood house on the river where patrons sitting along the bar can almost touch their toes in the water.
    — Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of patron
Noun
  • This is a season so overwhelmingly dull that it’s taken three different gay guys to recap it.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The bad guy has guessed his secret identity and now holds our hero at gunpoint.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of guy
Noun
  • There was no question of Swift doing a musical number on the episode, since the musical guest had long since been announced as Turnstile.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
  • At Trâmette, Quang decided to test out the gratuity payment option — but only for guests with whom the staff may have struck a particularly good rapport.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of guest
Noun
  • Federal prosecutors have accused a Cuban man living as a lawful permanent resident in Cass County of voting illegally.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The increase in online sports betting has worsened mental health problems in younger men, leading to more hospital visits as a result.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of man
Noun
  • Using sine wave generators and pink lighting so saturated it essentially blots out all other color and shadow, Young and Zazeela created a space that’s somehow both static and full of life.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Over time, Buddhism introduced ideas of reincarnation and karmic retribution, linking a person's fate after death to their actions in life.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of life

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“Customer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/customer. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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