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[kuhs-tuh-mer]

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noun

a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.

Informal. a person one has to deal with: a tough customer; a cool customer.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see custom, -er¹; compare Middle English customer collector of customs < Anglo-French; Old French costumier, cognate with Medieval Latin custumārius; see customary

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Customer is always a great word to know.

So is ort. Does it mean:

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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It turned out the employee who helped this customer was hard of hearing.

The student as customer metaphor should be confined to stduent services and activities, and not apply to the academic side.

Banks, for instance, use decades-old applications to manage customer accounts.

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It turned out the employee who helped this customer was hard of hearing.

The student as customer metaphor should be confined to stduent services and activities, and not apply to the academic side.

Banks, for instance, use decades-old applications to manage customer accounts.

Ultimately, the customer pays for all the fixes through rate increases.

It all depends on what the customer wants from a fairly extensive list.

Our version of a perfect customer experience is one in which our customer doesn't want to talk to us.

She was having trouble converting customer interest into actual appointments.

Experience with and skill in delivering exceptional customer service.

If you are still experiencing problems, please contact customer service.

The customer left and she went back under the work bench.

Usually when a company raises prices they do so apologetically, anticipating customer anger.

There are lots of explanations for why customer service is so bad.

Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills and strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills required.

They are also looking to capture other kinds of customer.

The proceeds from the utilities' allowances will go toward rate relief and other customer benefits.

The pioneering voice-over-internet company is battered by lawsuits, customer defections and poor stock-market performance.

Learning an important lesson about customer service.

As a team member, you will be expected to consistently deliver the best in care and customer service.

In addition, bots can be programmed to suggest products to accompany those that a customer has already picked out.

Find a local representative by calling the company directly and becoming a customer.

We already have many in our catalog, but it's invisible to you, the customer.

Must be committed to a positive customer service philosophy and willingness to work with others.

And it is no good getting too far ahead of the customer.

We've all had our share of lousy customer service and the web is full of horror stories about atrocious customer support.

It's an argument for attentive customer service from day one in dealing with and retaining new students.

Sweden has recently become the first country in which every customer has a smart meter, because the government made it mandatory.

Think about a time recently when you received great customer service.

The customer pays the rent, the wages, the whole lot.

Answers-the two professors admit they still don't fully understand the long-term impact of these programmes on customer behaviour.

Companies hope volunteer experts will provide better customer service and save them money.

Maybe the customer of colleges is not the student, but the job market of today and the economy of the future.

Dancers sit listlessly at the bar, waiting for a customer to buy.

Dear phineasboggs, try contacting customer services instead of whinning here.

Many content adjustments and customer service improvements are made based on the data derived from cookies.

While it may be the oldest business cliché there is, the fact is the customer isn't always right.

Banks had been considered less vulnerable because they have their own customer deposits to draw upon as sources of cash.

One intriguing tool for either identifying outbreaks or alerting customers to recalls is grocery store customer loyalty cards.

However, the company lowered it with one phone call to their customer service line.

People give higher customer satisfaction ratings to white men than to women and members of minorities, a new study says.

If a customer is buying a blazer from a catalogue, suggesting a shirt and tie makes.

The best thing about this toy are the customer reviews.

Sprint, which identified customer service as its biggest problem, ran commercials asking.

My bank will exchange currency free of charge to me as a customer.

Verizon, meanwhile, said it needs flexibility to arrange work and employee schedules to handle customer demand.

The customer service representatives were not aware that the calls were potential fodder for an ad campaign.

Each of the links in the chain adds value-that is, something that a customer is prepared to pay for.

We deal with a lot of important clients all over the world, and they focus on customer care.

The bank dropped a planned fee in response to customer outcry over the additional charge.

One idea might be to use customer data to identify trends and so help companies to anticipate what consumers want.

Nordstrom is a prestigious retailer that prides itself on customer service.

China is, after all, proving to be an unquenchable customer in the world oil market.

Owen knows the importance of keeping the customer satisfied.

But rarely do they get mugged by a former customer from a prison library.

Strong customer service skills and the ability to work well with a wide range of people and organizations.

Apple's potential customer base is shrinking by the day.

They made things when they knew they had a customer.

The new, quick-response market requires factories closer to the customer.

For example, a company may simply decide to move its local customer services operation to one of its own subsidiaries abroad.

The customer knows the quality of a product by its brand.

Hackers have breached its online service, exposing mountains of confidential customer data to potential mischief.

All other methods either involve customer credit or are less secure.

With essentially one tax-funded customer per country-the government-that hardly matters.

Sales, customer care and billing are all done on the web to cut costs, as with low-cost airlines.

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customer (ˈkʌstəmə)

—n
1.	a person who buys
2.	informal a person with whom one has dealings: a cool customer

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Word Origin & History

customer

14c., "customs official;" later "buyer" (early 15c.), from Anglo-Fr. custumer, from M.L. custumarius, from L. consuetudinarius (see custom). More generalized meaning "a person with whom one has dealings" emerged 1540s; that of "a person to deal with" (usually wth an adjective,

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tough, etc.) is by 1580s. In Shakespeare, the word also can mean "prostitute."

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Idioms & Phrases

customer

see ugly customer.