Word Finder - customers

definition

A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

example

Every person who passes by is a potential customer.

definition

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

example

a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer

He had booked some customers for her.

I thought you planned to have paying customers in it this summer.

I was talking to one of my customers the other day.

These were her first customers.

Those are rough customers.

Does the presence of customers make the shop look messy?

A good many firms venture occasionally to buy in anticipation of their customers' needs, especially when they expect a rising market.

We all were excellent customers of Plotkins, the local furniture store.

The two best customers of Russia are Germany, which takes 23.3% of her total exports, and the United Kingdom, which takes 22.9%.

Southern customers objected to its blue color, which is the evidence of its purity, as if it were muddy, and preferred the Cambridge ice, which is white, but tastes of weeds.

When the agents of the spinners, that is, the buying brokers, by becoming principals in some transactions, had acquired interests diametrically opposed to those of their customers, the consequent feeling of distrust among spinners gave birth to the Cotton Buying Company, which, constituted originally of twenty to thrity limited cotton-spinning companies, represents to-day nearly 6,000,000 spindles distributed among nearly one hundred firms. Its object was to squeeze out some middlemen and economize for its members on brokerage.

Pierre received a wide berth from the Starbucks customers, his massive frame standing out even more among normal-sized humans.

Final buy-in no enables customers like future plans events.

Customers must take precautions to minimize any loss that might occur.

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Anglian Water treats the wastewater from over 5 million customers a day from the River Humber to the River Thames.

Ultimately many of the old Manchester cotton dealers became brokers for their old customers.

There were no printed circulars, except the monthly prices current of all kinds of produce, but brokers used to send particulars of business done to their customers in letters.

Thus the government of the prince regent began its career in the new world with dangerous errors in the financial system; yet the increased activity which a multitude of new customers and the increase of circulating medium gave to the trade of Rio, added a new stimulus to the industry of the whole nation.

Those who go find means of bettering their own condition beyond the seas, where they become producers of food and raw material for the home country, and at the same time customers for her manufactured products.

It must be noted, however, that while most of the spinning concerns are worked by limited companies or individuals with a considerable capital, a good many small manufacturers exist who have little capital and are practically financied by their agents or customers.

The chief foreign customers are Great Britain and the United States.

It was estimated in 1905 that the world's output of cotton was 19,000,000 bales, of which 134 millions were produced in the United States, 3 millions in India, and nearly millions in Egypt, Japan and China being India's best customers for the raw article.

New York merchants, who had suffered so severely, determined to organize a headquarters where reports regarding the standing of customers could be exchanged.

The neighbouring Portuguese possessions are the next best customers of the colony.

In his Almanac for 1707 a Protestant alarmist and plot vaticinator styled John Partridge warned customers against rivals and impostors.

Nettlefold & Chamberlain employed new methods of attracting customers, and judiciously amalgamated rival firms with their own so as to reduce competition, with the result that in 1874, after twenty-two years of commercial life, Mr Chamberlain was able to retire with an ample fortune.

Howie was trying to inform the geriatric customers of our plight while the clerk, apparently speaking with a switchboard, complied with my directive.

With the jury trial continuing into the coming week—far longer than originally expected—the Dawkins clan was going nowhere, thus causing a log jam of customers in the river of incoming lodgers.

At the clinic, he was greeted with enthusiasm by employees and customers.

Babysitters now outnumbered their potential customers, as fami­lies with young children could seldom afford the little three-bed­room "Norman," much less "The Saxon" or the bi-level "King Richard."

The increase in customers resulted in an anticipation of increased demand.

There was consternation among some customers who have encountered a variety of glitches.

We heard from potential customers in some of the earlier replies in this thread.

They advised customers who had bought products from J&H Cairns to dispose of them.

Customers may select the product of their choice and use it on a free trial basis before purchase.

The service listens to its customers and offers them choice and flexibility, and will continuously strive to improve.

This ensures that the work is relevant to you and immediately actionable, fitting the demands of your organization and your customers.

It offers customers in-depth functionality and an existing range of third party add-ons.

Tele2's customers are connected by radio in effect, through a small roof mounted aerial, to a local transmitter.

Its customers include all of the world's leading manufacturers of civil and military, fixed and rotary wing aircraft and aero engine.

Customers report using their hand to restrict airflow at the bottom of the device to increase sensation.

The bulbous headlamps and over-large bonnet air scoop put many customers off and sales fell by 30% .

Customers can choose from willow, birch, cherry, alder, sweet chestnut, ash, beech chestnut, poplar or oak.

Koppers makes carbon pitch, coal tar distillates, and phthalic anhydride and ships products to customers in rail cars.

The club features a team of sexy, enterprising young women who tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics.

As such, the value is 50 That is to say that up to 400 customers will share that single 4Mb/s backhaul.

Their policy seems to consist entirely of sitting on their fat backsides doing absolutely bugger all in response to enquiries from prospective customers.

Customers also have access to 24-hour telephone banking or by logging on to NatWest Online Banking.

For more on the meditations of Trout and reflections on customers ' apparently baseless, and irksome concerns, go here.