customer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: customer	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for customer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
customer n someone who pays for goods or services [syn: customer, client]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Customer \Cus"tomer\ (k[ucr]s"t[ucr]m[etil]r), n. [A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See {Custom}.] 1. 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. --Hakluyt. 2. 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. 3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. --J. A. H. Murray. 4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] --Dickens. 5. A lewd woman. [Obs.] --Shak.