| 单词 | customer |
| 释义 | customer (kʌstəməʳ ) Word forms: customers 1. countable noun A2 A customer is someone who buys goods or services, especially from a shop. Our customers have very tight budgets. ...a satisfied customer. ...the quality of customer service. We also improved our customer satisfaction levels. Synonyms: client, consumer, regular [informal], buyer 2. countable noun [adjective NOUN] You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like. [informal] She's a real cool customer. ...two pretty awkward customers. Collocations: charge customers This is why we have decided to stop charging our customers for credit card bookings. The Sun (2016) These figures determine what the company can charge its customers. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The giant charged customers too much and then failed to help when they complained. The Sun (2016) You have always been a cool customer in front of the cameras. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He's a cool customer, very methodical and very good with his emotions. The Sun (2019) 'He's a cool customer and he makes very few mistakes. Times, Sunday Times (2009) New software often limits access to ensure a user who sees a customer database and addresses may not have access to their credit card details. Times, Sunday Times Yes, trading online can save money, but that's no consolation if any hacker with a trivial amount of common sense can download your customer database by using widelyknown scripts. Times, Sunday Times The customer database grew 25% last year. Times, Sunday Times The authority was said to be seeking to access the company's customer database. Times, Sunday Times It said its customer database had not been breached but that the attackers had stolen data from online forms. Times, Sunday Times The recruits will join the supermarket's 10,000 customer delivery assistants who last year made 25million deliveries. The Sun Over time the brand became tarnished by inconsistent customer delivery and image perceptions of the cloverleaf logo were irreparably damaged. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first customer delivery took place in early 2007. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The value of this data in diagnosing emission systems after customer delivery was quickly identified. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A new coach finishing and paint facility and customer delivery centre were constructed on the site. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meanwhile, companies are responding to sudden changes in customer demand. Times,Sunday Times Customer demand and the threat of local lockdowns were cited as the top two obstacles. Times,Sunday Times The company found itself in the admittedly unusual position of being a retailer without enough goods to satisfy customer demand. Times, Sunday Times In response to customer demand, it has put a make-your-own burger on its menu. Times, Sunday Times The company also only manufactures items to customer demand. Times, Sunday Times There are changes in technology, customer expectations and competition. Times, Sunday Times We've made progress in the past but customer expectations have risen. Times, Sunday Times Changes in technology, in customer expectations and in population as well as regulation can mean a successful organisation can potentially go under very quickly. Times, Sunday Times Low customer expectations are hardly fertile ground for building worthwhile relationships, and they make it hard to sell sophisticated financial plans - so both sides may lose. Times, Sunday Times The company says the new site, which will need 500 staff, will help it to 'grow and meet rising customer expectations'. The Sun Complaints-handling was 'inadequate' and customer feedback was not properly heeded, it said. Times, Sunday Times A spokesman for the store said the move was a response to customer feedback. The Sun He has tied a quarter of the management bonus to customer feedback. Times, Sunday Times So far, customer feedback for the perfume, which costs 17, has been positive. Times, Sunday Times She had received numerous company awards and positive customer feedback. Times,Sunday Times However, these second level exchanges had a smaller customer line capacity and only had trunk circuits to regional cities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He spoke after video emerged of customers lining up with trolleys for up to 40 minutes before supermarkets opened. The Sun A new switchboard was opened and was equipped for 2,100 customer lines and 200 trunk lines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some banks now reward customer loyalty by offering exclusive savings rates to current account holders. Times, Sunday Times Which, call me old-fashioned, seems an odd way to inspire customer loyalty. The Sun A high-end brand with a laudable social purpose can count on high customer loyalty from ethicallyminded shoppers. Times, Sunday Times Various studies have shown that having friends at work lowers staff turnover and increases safety, productivity and customer loyalty. Times, Sunday Times Brand new material includes increasing customer loyalty, green marketing and podcasting. Times, Sunday Times Analysts estimate that it costs retailers about £10 to deliver a customer order, but it can cost double that to handle a return, putting a huge burden on their cashflows. Times,Sunday Times For the past two years, major production problems have affected customer order deliveries. Globe and Mail It helps in the data aggregation transversely from assorted order capture and order fulfillment systems and delivers an all-inclusive platform for customer order management. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Products or services are produced against a real customer order in a just-in-time fashion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One customer ordered 13 refills of one product within the first 100 days of joining. Times,Sunday Times Most existing charges are factored into the price that a customer pays for each unit of electricity - meaning that those who use more, pay more. Times,Sunday Times Likewise, if a customer pays a monthly fee for unlimited dial-up access, their current supplier almost certainly provides an equivalent broadband deal for less. The Sun It's manipulation and it costs money, so the customer pays more for their product just to pay for advertising. Times, Sunday Times Safeguards could easily be put in place to make sure that each customer pays a fair, transparent price for the level of advice they receive. Times, Sunday Times Conversely, the customer pays the bank fees if interest rates fall. Times, Sunday Times These businesses generate a large portion of revenue from repeat customer purchases. Times, Sunday Times The customer purchases user sessions, which have access to certain parts of the system included. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The remaining 40% of daily calorie intake comes from grocery foods, which the customer purchases separately. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Research has found that the demand for cash decreases as debit card usage increases because merchants need to make less change for customer purchases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over 70% of customer purchases in 2001 were coffee. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A helpful customer representative expressed her sadness and said she would inform the airport, transfer service and hotel to cancel the bookings. Times,Sunday Times They can be developed collaboratively by requirement requester (product owner, business analyst, customer representative, etc.), developer, and tester. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, its customer representatives asked you for extra information and assured you payment would follow. Times, Sunday Times So perhaps no-one from the business community should bother getting in touch with the unmandated prime minister about her unmandated plans to put worker and customer representatives on company boards. Times, Sunday Times Recent studies of knowledge workers, particularly salespeople, customer representatives, and consultants, indicate they spend only 30% of their time in the office. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Proponents of extreme programming claim that by having the on-site customer request changes informally, the process becomes flexible, and saves the cost of formal overhead. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More than 90 per cent of customers requesting holidays had resumed payments. Times,Sunday Times The project was started as a customer request for an ultralight category scale replica of a fighter and was later offered as a commercially available kit aircraft. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Providers will also be required to offer a 12-month contract if customers request it. Times, Sunday Times Auctions can also include some plates that are specific customer requests. Times, Sunday Times The firm are looking for team leaders, store managers, assistant managers and sandwich artists - who make the food to customer requirements. The Sun They allegedly took with them the company's customer and dealer lists, customer requirements, computer programs, sales procedures and other confidential information. Times, Sunday Times But the need to comply with regulatory and customer requirements varies by industry, with electronics and consumer goods companies much more likely to face such requirements. Times, Sunday Times It added that the price cuts were a response to changing customer requirements. Times, Sunday Times During this transition, the critical nature of audit event reporting gradually transformed into low priority customer requirements. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their abolition should be offered as a carrot, once the banks improve their handling of customer switches. Times, Sunday Times When a customer switches supplier, they will keep the same smart meter. Times, Sunday Times At present these sites charge as much as 40 every time a customer switches a gas or electricity supplier or as much as 70 for dual-fuel changes. Times, Sunday Times Credit card issuers and retail banks use customer transaction data to improve targeting of cross-sell offers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Customer transactions were 296 million for the fourth quarter, up 3.1 per cent from a year ago. canada.com It handles 12m customer transactions a month, dispensing 5 billion of cash a year. Times, Sunday Times The service- vital for any web-based business - authorises customer transactions, collects payments and transfers the money into the company's bank account. Times, Sunday Times This was much stronger than the 0.4 per cent growth in the previous quarter and came after it recorded 10 million more customer transactions than a year earlier. Times, Sunday Times The report was of a disgruntled customer who was allegedly trying to stop the manager getting out of her office. Times, Sunday Times Even the teams who post fliers for the firm do not escape criticism, with one disgruntled customer sharing a picture of a huge pile of leaflets on his doormat. The Sun Disgruntled customers say that an improvement cannot come quickly enough. Times, Sunday Times No wonder the disgruntled customers cut the fee they were prepared to pay. The Sun Disgruntled customers threatened to take their business elsewhere after the cost of groceries at the online supermarket rose and special offers were cut. Times,Sunday Times These industries differed from the production of consumer goods, where a dissatisfied customer could find another supplier, and where production was competitive. The Times Literary Supplement It's impossible to find a dissatisfied customer. Times, Sunday Times Early indications show that dissatisfied customers are now searching for a better deal. Times, Sunday Times It's hard to say how many dissatisfied customers there are, because nobody seems interested in recording that data. Times, Sunday Times As well as suspected inaccurate billing, they have told of high-pressure selling and a stubborn reluctance to let dissatisfied customers transfer to other energy companies. Times, Sunday Times In the 58 colourful workshops up and down the country, bubbly staff bring teddies to life for eager customers. Times, Sunday Times Eager customers were putting in their orders in private suites until 5am. Times, Sunday Times He may have a marvellous product and eager customers, but that will not suffice for success. Times, Sunday Times There was even a waiting list filled with eager customers before the product was available to buy. The Sun To capture more business you must entice customers who are spending cash elsewhere to spend it with you, instead. Times, Sunday Times Retailers pulled out all the stops to entice customers to stores and away from websites. Times, Sunday Times Advertisers are constantly searching for ways to entice customers without bombarding them with adverts. Times, Sunday Times These are the people, remember, who try to entice customers into their showrooms by covering the forecourt with balloons. Times, Sunday Times He also introduced zero-interest financing to entice customers to splash out on pricier stuff. Times, Sunday Times Sales increased 22% to £167.2m in 2018, driven by increased trade with its existing customer base and growing online sales. Times,Sunday Times Brokers point out, however, that it costs less to switch an existing customer to another deal than to take on a new customer. Times, Sunday Times The key assets are the equipment, workshop lease and your existing customer base. Times, Sunday Times The latest jump came yesterday, when a $2.4 million contract with an existing customer added 10 per cent to its value. Times, Sunday Times Offer periods are likely to be different depending on whether you are a new or existing customer. Times, Sunday Times That's how not to greet a customer. Times, Sunday Times Staff wore masks and greeted customers with an infrared thermometer and a questionnaire about their recent medical and travel history. Times,Sunday Times Greet customers in the dining room, time the cooking in the kitchen, and direct the service. Times, Sunday Times He made a point of greeting his customers during service and always tried to accommodate their personal preferences. Times,Sunday Times But for six hours a day, two days a week he greets customers and wipes tables as a customer care manager. The Sun One happy customer commented that it had been 'part of the day, part of the experience'. Times, Sunday Times But isn't a happy customer by definition a lost customer? Times, Sunday Times Don't pose as a happy customer and don't overtly sell your product. Times, Sunday Times I had been a happy customer for more than two years until this happened. Times, Sunday Times The guestbook sings with the praise of happy customers. Times,Sunday Times Separately yesterday the government announced measures to help customers pay their bills. Times,Sunday Times (2020) Some brands have found inventive ways to help customers get the right shade online. Times,Sunday Times (2020) We are working around the clock to process refunds where necessary and help customers. Times,Sunday Times (2020) This allows calculation by an industrial customer of its internal fault levels within its plant. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Energy sales were down by 8.5 per cent because the mild weather reduced demand and because of a fall in the number of industrial customers. Times, Sunday Times The last time gas supplies were cut to big industrial customers was in 2010 because of severe gas shortages. Times, Sunday Times The company has a small proportion of large industrial customers on its predominantly rural patch, such that water demand has held up well. Times, Sunday Times The company buys forward coal and gas to provide certainty of pricing to its big industrial customers. Times, Sunday Times City merchants started to lose customers. The Times Literary Supplement (2012) We have lost regular customers since it was introduced. The Sun (2015) It has lost 447,000 customers this year. The Sun (2019) That was after 30 years as a loyal customer. The Sun A company could have carved out a good business with a loyal customer base. Times, Sunday Times But he said the callouts did not justify the increases in renewal costs, especially as he'd been a loyal customer for 12 years. The Sun It seems that being a loyal customer and always paying my store card bill on time and in full counted for nothing. Times, Sunday Times It helps that he has a loyal customer base and a reputation for serving good food. Times, Sunday Times Fraudsters often use scam versions of genuine websites to lure customers into revealing their card details when they make payments. Times, Sunday Times The neo-banks are engaged in a land grab, offering cut-price services such as low-cost money transfers to lure customers. Times,Sunday Times But experts said it showed the pressure supermarkets are under to lure customers. The Sun The retailer hopes to lure customers confused by other broadband firms' deals. The Sun But has it found the right formula to lure customers through its doors? Times, Sunday Times A computer program acting as an online customer service representative. Times, Sunday Times It's easier to get the music to the online customer, but harder to protect it from theft. Times, Sunday Times You can use your supplier's website even if you are not an online customer. Times, Sunday Times I think with us it's a question of creating a confidence with our online customer. Times, Sunday Times But one or two internet converts did suggest logging the complaint with the online customer service team by e-mail and asking for a confirmation of receipt. Times, Sunday Times But the principle behind such excesses remains inviolable - the paying customer has a right to vileness. Times, Sunday Times A social insurance scheme allows everyone to be a paying customer who can go elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times Voucher can not be used as a method of paying customer accounts. The Sun The voucher can not be used to purchase gift vouchers/cards or used as a method of paying customer accounts. The Sun They seem to be aimed primarily at literature students or other writers, rather than your average paying customer. Times, Sunday Times She was taken to court after a potential customer asked the council about her food hygiene rating. Times, Sunday Times Salespeople go into standby mode if there's no potential customer in the vicinity. Times, Sunday Times Do your homework and conduct feasibility studies and understand the potential customer base intimately. ST For those setting up a small business selling niche products, such websites provide instant access to a potential customer base. Times, Sunday Times After all, instead of going to fashion school and learning to cut and drape, celebrity designers serve their apprenticeships by gaining fame and building that all-important potential customer base. Times, Sunday Times Above all, he relished the opportunity to transmit his enthusiasm for a book to a prospective customer, and cherished the spark once lit. Times, Sunday Times The glassmakers were the main prospective customer base for the sodium carbonate alkali. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Vendors use them to introduce a product or service to a prospective customer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Personalization allows a company to relate, communicate, and possibly start a relationship with a prospective customer and to maintain a relationship with their current customers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their designs have impressed some illustrious prospective customers. Times,Sunday Times I manage a very popular bar and a regular customer held his 30th birthday party there recently. The Sun I work on the till in a supermarket and a regular customer always smiled at me. The Sun If you are a regular customer you should tip at the upper end of the range as this will guarantee you a good table the next time. Times, Sunday Times Quite likely, the manager will thank you for your honesty, and perhaps even forgive you your debt in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with a regular customer. Times, Sunday Times If you are a regular customer, retailers are less likely to view you as a potential fraudster, so will be more inclined to let you use an alternative address. Times, Sunday Times These businesses generate a large portion of revenue from repeat customer purchases. Times, Sunday Times I would be a very good repeat customer. The Sun If you like the way you are treated, you will likely become a repeat customer, the mainstay of many successful operations. The Scientist Businesses agree in the hope of winning repeat customers or selling additional items, such as drinks with a discounted meal. Times, Sunday Times And the truly obscenely wealthy make better repeat customers. Times, Sunday Times But residential customer accounts fell 'only slightly' in 2016. The Sun Under the plan, which still requires government approval, the cost of the new meter for an average residential customer would be between $3 and $4 a month. canada.com The alliance says a switch to gas would have a moderate cost, raising the price of electricity by about $1.86 a month for a typical residential customer. Globe and Mail The average increase will amount to $3.66 per month for the average residential customer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The average residential customer pays $63 per year for conservation programs as of 2014. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The company blamed the global credit crisis and the collapse of an important retail customer. Times, Sunday Times Retail customer deliveries began in the second quarter of 2012. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Retail customer deliveries began in the second quarter of 2012., a total of 518 cars were sold in the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Efficient supply chains are critical to delivering the retail customer promise of fast fashion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Evidence from other countries where the policy has been implemented suggested that negative interest rates were rarely passed on to retail customers. Times,Sunday Times Often, a satisfied customer will leave a tip. Christianity Today There's nothing like a satisfied customer, and the people featured in this new show have plenty to smile about. The Sun One satisfied customer even has a unit in her bathroom to keep her make-up chilled. Times, Sunday Times I have no connection with any other than as a satisfied customer who, as a consequence, will continue to use their services. Times, Sunday Times I must have looked a bit too much like a satisfied customer because he opened it in the middle, almost cracking the spine, and pointed triumphantly to a paragraph. Times, Sunday Times But with a motorbike, the only way to satisfy the customer was to identify a problem and fix it. Times, Sunday Times Builders saw it as a new way to satisfy the customer and make their budget work simultaneously. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has an ordering based game play mechanic (customers order items and then the player creates the items in order to satisfy the customer), while incorporating a construction based theme. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Academics must learn to work harder to satisfy their customers. The Sun This process continues until the final release when all the contents that satisfy the customers requirements have been included in the software. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This helps them to get rid of employees who are motivated to work there only by money and who might not serve the customer properly. Times, Sunday Times Why should a hotel keeper escape if he serves his customer with dishes contaminated by living germs? Times, Sunday Times The officers and engineers of the old water boards served their customers with pride and diligence. Times, Sunday Times We are all here to serve the customers and you get immediate feedback, good and bad. Times, Sunday Times Diverse companies could be better placed to serve their customers and grow into new business areas. Times, Sunday Times Admittedly, thoughts are slippery customers. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) Unfortunately, slippery customers often behave badly about the money they owe suppliers. Times, Sunday Times (2016) In fact, memory can be a very slippery customer indeed. Times, Sunday Times (2007) While the group's international revenue was down 5 per cent, the company said that it had begun to 'better reengage with its target customer base'. Times, Sunday Times As a lifestyle center, the target customer for the center are upper-income shoppers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The target customer would think that some assembly required was a desirable feature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The target customer includes upscale professionals in upper middle class affluent sub-urban areas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This allows the firm the ability to use ctitical resources to produce exactly what customers are looking for, and the ability to target customer groups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He's a tough customer and proud of it. Times, Sunday Times (2012) An exuberant personality, often laughing while she wrote, she was also a tough customer with editors, regularly resisting advice that she thought threatened the integrity of the novels into which she poured so much wit and learning. Times, Sunday Times (2011) I had a game plan to break him down slowly because he's a tough customer but I got out there and heard the roar of the crowd and thought, 'I'll knock him out quick'. Times, Sunday Times (2009) I pointed out that he still had a very unhappy customer. Times, Sunday Times We also reveal the story of one unhappy customer who has paid the price on a higher tariff. The Sun Those buying from this seller will have no idea that there has been an unhappy customer (or so it seems, several). Times, Sunday Times This has upset one unhappy customer. Times, Sunday Times They attracted 50,790 official complaints from unhappy customers - up eight per cent in a year. The Sun This bill would begin to tax every utility customer approximately $1.90 a month, regardless of how much energy the customer uses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So as energy bills rise, an increasing proportion of utility customers are likely to pay more frequently - most typically monthly rather than quarterly - to spread the burden. Times, Sunday Times It said it was part of a restructuring prompted by a fall in demand for new energy plants and a drop in investment by its traditional utility customers. Times, Sunday Times Switched mode power supplies in a building can result in poor power quality for other utility customers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The company serves 4.5 million utility customers through its regulated distribution subsidiaries across seven states. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I can guarantee at least one willing customer. Times, Sunday Times You need ships to transport it, a refinery to manufacture fuel and a willing customer to buy it. Times, Sunday Times This practice stopped a few years later due to complaints, and employees switched to offering bumper stickers free of charge to any willing customer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet on the margins you'll doubtless have illicit dealers actually selling the new, horrid, legal stuff to willing customers under the pretence that it's the old, marginally-less-horrid illegal stuff. Times, Sunday Times Advertisers can find willing customers; candidates can hone in on potential voters. Times, Sunday Times Staff have also been given 'wow' budgets with which to woo customers. Times, Sunday Times That means tour operators are left with unsold holidays and offer bargains to woo customers, as our listing opposite indicates. Times, Sunday Times It recently attempted to woo customers with a series of price cuts and a 1 bouquet, aptly named the 'credit bunch'. Times, Sunday Times It seems the marketing people were given free rein to dream up enticing deals and interest-free offers to woo customers. Times, Sunday Times It aims, instead, to woo customers with good service. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 顾客 Japanese: 顧客 |
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