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 Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 The area might not have running water or electricity, but there’s enough gas to fry up bacon for hungry customers. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 With half of Gen Z consumers already making beverage-only purchases weekly, afternoon drinks give operators another reason to reach customers outside breakfast, lunch and dinner. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 The companies write in general terms that undercutting affiliates would lessen liquidity and worsen odds for customers, while complaining about the operational burdens the rules would create. — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026 That included voluntarily supplying law enforcement with lists of disgruntled current and former employees, and of the names of dissatisfied customers. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 No customers were on the bus, and the house and cars were unoccupied. — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Her first job as CEO in 2014 was to remake the century-old company’s corporate culture and regain customers’ trust following a tragic, reputation-wrecking ignition-switch crisis. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 True transformation occurs when AI changes how decisions are made, how expertise is distributed, how work moves through the organization and how value is delivered to customers. — Jason Marx, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The first was a soulful serenade by Jessie Murph—another one of Bailey Carbone’s clients.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
All those killed or missing this week were Nepali nationals preparing for foreign clients to arrive for the Autumn climbing season that began this month.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 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

This is a season so overwhelmingly dull that it’s taken three different gay guys to recap it.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 manga laid the groundwork for some of the genre's most enduring tropes (gender switching, horny old guys, tournaments), and this is the second anime adaptation, this time from Studio MAPPA.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of guys

Noun

Set in a courtyard deep within the forest, Oaken and his family will invite guests to dine together while enjoying the musical stylings of his cousins.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Unlike many spas that focus on the healing effects of treatments, Kamalaya goes much deeper, encouraging guests to explore more emotional issues in a safe space.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of guests

Noun

Built in 1965 and 1970, respectively, the vessels are approaching the limits of their service lives.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Their bid to change their lives turns into a dangerous chase, and the friendship becomes the one thing protecting them.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of lives

Noun

After things go awry in the Congo, the family in The Poisonwood Bible dissolves readily.

— Sam Worley, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
In some ways, things have changed considerably for Reid over the last year after the television adaptation of her 2019 novel, Heated Rivalry, became a cultural phenomena.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026

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