customer
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌs.tə.mə/
The English word “customer” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
- A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so.
- A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
- A native official who exacted customs duties.
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.
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