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customer definition

cus·tomer (kus′tə mər)

noun

  1. a person who buys, esp. one who buys from, or patronizes, an establishment regularly
  2. Informal any person with whom one has dealings a rough customer

Etymology: ME < OFr coustumier: see custom

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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