customer
customer is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 36 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.
- 2.A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray.
- 3.A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] Dickens.
- 4.A lewd woman. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- always
- bribe
- bribery
- buy
- buyer
- caveat
- client
- clientele
- coemption
- complete
- counter
- employer
- emption
- hire
- invest
- keep
- make
- market
- over
- patron
- pay
- preemption
- procure
- purchase
- purchaser
- refusal
- rent
- repurchase
- right
- shop
- slave
- spend
- suborn
- the
- trade
- vendee
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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