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customer

noun
/ˈkʌs.tə.mə/UK/ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ/

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. By surface analysis, custom + -er.

  1. derived from custumarius
  2. derived from coustumier
  3. inherited from custumer

Definitions

  1. A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client

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

  2. A patron, a client

    A patron, a client; 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.

  3. A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.

    • a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
    • Pug could just see Slote's pale face under his fur hat. "I don't agree with you on that. He's a pretty tough customer, Hopkins."
    • This switch led to Philip Hammond becoming the Transport Secretary and he quickly proved to be a tricky customer, asking questions about rail spending and reining it back whenever possible.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A native official who exacted customs duties.

      • His houses […] are seized on by the Customer.
      • The Customer should come and visit them.
      • The several affronts, insolences, and abuses dayly put upon us by Boolchund, our chief Customer

The neighborhood

Derived

custie, customer account, customer base, customer care, customercentric, customer experience, customerize, customerless, customerlike, customer-oriented, customer relationship, customer research, customer resistance, customer service, customership, customer site, customer success, customer success manager, customer support, customer-to-customer, entrepreneurial customer, investomer, multicustomer, noncustomer, promote to customer, pure customer, the customer is always right, ugly customer

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at customer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at customer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at customer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA