customer
A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so.
Noun 2 meanings
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.”
A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
“a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer”
Etymology
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.
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CUSTOMER at a glance
CUSTOMER has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (C 3 + U 1 + S 1 + T 1 + O 1 + M 3 + E 1 + R 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,379 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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