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noun

Customer n.

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. (Obs.) "The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths."

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."

A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.

A peculiar person; in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. (Colloq.)

A lewd woman. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Customer" Quotes from Famous Books

... strengthen themselves,' as it is called, in the early stage of a panic; they borrow money while they can; they come to their banker and offer bills for discount, which commonly they would not have offered for days or weeks to come. And if the merchant be a regular customer, a banker does not like to refuse, because if he does he will be said, or may be said, to be in want of money, and so may attract the panic to himself. Not only merchants but all persons under pecuniary liabilities—present or imminent—feel this ...

— Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market • Walter Bagehot

... this suggestion, looked at Tom rather suspiciously. After removing the plate of the sensitive customer, he came back to the table where the two ...

— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger

... credit, with the cura of the village, and even with the captain-general himself. It consists, firstly, in the fact that the majority have no money, because of their dissipation; and secondly, because they are sure that after they have received a part of their price, their customer will not go to another house, and that he will wait for the workman as long as he wishes (which is usually as long as what he has collected lasts), and that then the customer will have to take the work in the way in which it is delivered ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin

... would have made if Sir George had issued replies to those commercial newspaper editors over the border who rushed jubilating into print to say with fabulous statistics that Canada was now the heaviest customer that nation had. How we should have liked to hear officially from the Minister of Trade how Broadway was infecting the country, luxuries reeling in argosies over the dry land to Canada, and Canada buying herself bankrupt on the exchanges; ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... more than mildly curious regarding an Eskimo boy, who, entering their store that day and displaying a large roll of bills, demanded the best in women's wearing apparel. They had in stock a complete outfit, just the size that would fit the strange customer, who was no other ...

— Triple Spies • Roy J. Snell

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