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? — deniko

    deRuf doch mal beim Kundendienst an! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom is a very good customer.

    Том дуже добрий клієнт. — deniko

    deTom ist ein sehr guter Kunde. — wolfgangth

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  3. Tom is busy helping a customer.

    Том зайнятий, він допомагає клієнту. — deniko

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  4. Tom was talking to a customer.

    Том розвовляв з клієнтом. — deniko

    ruТом разговаривал с клиентом. — odexed

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

    У нашому ресторані небегато клієнтів по понеділках. — deniko

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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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Forms

plural: customers
Singularcustomer
Pluralcustomers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
patronB2clientB2solicitor
Close in meaning
  • someone who pays for goods or services:client

Word family

32 related words
RelatedcostumeB2customA2customaryC1customsB1consuetudecostumalcustomizationcustomize
Derivedcustiecustomer accountcustomer basecustomer carcustomer carecustomercentriccustomer experiencecustomerizecustomerlesscustomerlikecustomer-orientedcustomer relationshipcustomer researchcustomer resistancecustomer servicecustomershipcustomer successcustomer supportcustomer-to-customerentrepreneurial customerinvestomermulticustomernoncustomerpure customer

Collocations

12 patterns
  • customers in the
  • customer service
  • a regular customer
  • regular customer
  • best best customers
  • rude to customers
  • many customers
  • very good customer
  • good customer
  • to a customer
  • with a customer
  • a good customer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
customA2customaryC1customizecutA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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