customer

IPA: kˈʌstʌmɝ

(obsolete) A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; one who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
(India, historical) A native official who exacted customs duties.

Examples of "customer" in Sentences

The customers complained and left.
The customer is the representative.
The customer service centre is unaffected by the closure.
It is the expectation of the customer from the service provider.
How is this directness best understood by those servicing the U.S. customer
From the destination service center, the freight is delivered to the customer.
Im proud to work for a company that takes the term customer service so literally.
One manager sent me an email chastising me for using the term customer internally.
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Our corporate policy is to use the term customer when referring to internal customers.
By the end of the 1980s, the term customer service had become a part of our everyday lexicon.
If so, we have to use SQL clause to filter the records, then put them into the seperate charts one by one. customer = @customer
Her responsibilities are now handled by Rob Bacon who will take the title customer and employee brand director when he joins later this year from Carphone Warehouse.
The middle of the twentieth century also saw the first incarnations of the term customer service, as businesses started to answer customers questions and take orders by phone.
The UK television industry's main customer is still the US, where British formats including American Idol (from Pop Idol) and Dancing with the Stars – the US version of Strictly Come Dancing – continue to pull in massive audiences.