customer
/ˈkʌs.tə.mə/ noun A2- 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.
- A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others. · a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
- A native official who exacted customs duties.
Plural customers
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But William Blair’s two daughters frequently waited on customers there and Matthew held them in absolute dread.
Horace Harker is a customer of ours.
“As you please, sir,” said Caderousse, who, anxious not to lose the present opportunity of finding a customer for one of the few bottles of Cahors still remaining in his possession, hastily raised a trap-door in the floor of the apartment they were in, which served both as parlor and kitchen.
Still, let it not be supposed that amid this affected resignation to the will of Providence, the unfortunate innkeeper did not writhe under the double misery of seeing the hateful canal carry off his customers and his profits, and the daily infliction of his peevish partner’s murmurs and lamentations.
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