Meaning

4 senses
  1. 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.

    Abnehmer, Abnehmerin, Käufer

    клие́нтklijént, клие́нткаklijéntka, зака́зчикzakázčik

    кліє́нтklijént, кліє́нткаklijéntka, замо́вникzamóvnyk

  2. (informal)A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.

    a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer

  3. (India, historical)A native official who exacted customs duties.

  4. (obsolete)A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.

    Stammkunde

More definitions
  • someone who pays for goods or services

Examples

740 sentences
  1. Why don't you call customer service?

    Чому б тобі не зателефонувати до служби клієнтської підтримки?

    deRuf doch mal beim Kundendienst an!

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  2. Tom is a very good customer.

    Том дуже добрий клієнт.

    deTom ist ein sehr guter Kunde.

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  3. Tom is busy helping a customer.

    Том зайнятий, він допомагає клієнту.

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  4. Tom was talking to a customer.

    Том розвовляв з клієнтом.

    ruТом разговаривал с клиентом.

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  5. Our restaurant doesn't get many customers on Monday.

    У нашому ресторані небегато клієнтів по понеділках.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who purchases or receives a product or service:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who purchases or receives a product or service:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
(obsolete) habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client:
one who purchases or receives a product or service:

Origin

From Middle English custumer, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French

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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