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Customer   /kˈəstəmər/   Listen
noun
Customer  n.  
1.
One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. (Obs.) "The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths."
2.
One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. "He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it."
3.
A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
4.
A peculiar person; in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. (Colloq.)
5.
A lewd woman. (Obs.)





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"Customer" Quotes from Famous Books



... learnt to paint, I trow. But oh that order—I remember now— For twenty chaplets, from the priest of Zeus! Ah, what a grand majestic Hiereus!" So pleased he was that morning with those three, And such a customer he ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... But when the Samuelses got an Archdeacon's son to form their boy's mind, Mr Gilbey thought Bobby ought to have a chance too. And the Monsignor is a customer. Mr Gilbey consulted him about Bobby; and he recommended a brother of his that was ...
— Fanny's First Play • George Bernard Shaw
... that a part of the value you deliver to a customer consists in giving him a better opinion of himself: making him feel like a king for a day and that the best is ...
— Sam Lambert and the New Way Store - A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks • Unknown
... bank cashiers over in Rocktown; and Rocktown, it appears, is four miles in a buggy over a rough road. That rough road and the buggy are, of course, an incontrovertible argument, gentlemen. And the other half has a rich prospective customer for a couple of town lots—also over in Rocktown. A busy little place that Rocktown must be! I don't wonder you're smiling. I smiled myself when ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... time. He was not certain whether, in making or requiring an offer, he would get the best bargain out of his needy customer. At last ...
— Finger Posts on the Way of Life • T. S. Arthur


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