Customer \Cus"tom*er\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m*[~e]r), n. [A doublet of
   customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See
   Custom.]
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   1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.]
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            The customers of the small or petty custom and of
            the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey
            cloths.                               --Hakluyt.
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   2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a
      trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
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            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.
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   3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the
      customers of a bank. --J. A. H. Murray.
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   4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer
      customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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   5. A lewd woman. [Obs.] --Shak.
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	customer
    n 1: someone who pays for goods or services [syn: customer,
         client]

	

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   consumer, creature, duck, earthling, fellow, groundling, guy, hand,
   head, homo, human, human being, individual, joker, life,
   living soul, man, mark, mortal, nose, one, party, patron, person,
   personage, personality, prospect, purchaser, regular,
   regular customer, shopper, single, somebody, someone, soul, sucker,
   tellurian, terran, worldling