| 单词 | customer |
| 释义 | customer (once / 143 pages) n A customer is anyone paying for a good or service. Without customers, businesses would go out of business. When you're paying for just about anything, you're a customer. People shopping at the grocery store, sitting in coffee shops, going to movies, and buying DVDs online are all customers. The point of advertising is to drum up new customers for a business. There's a cliché that "The customer is always right," which is obviously not true, but shows how businesses try to make customers happy. They'd better. Without customers, any business is in deep trouble. WORD FAMILYcustomer: customers USAGE EXAMPLESWells opened up millions of accounts without the permission of its customers, just to goose internal numbers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) More than 11,000 customers were without power as of Monday afternoon in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi because of the storm, utility companies reported. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) For cash deals above 100,000 francs, a Swiss retailer must now confirm customers’ identities and report suspicious transactions. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) n someone who pays for goods or services Syn|Hypo|Hyper client buyer, emptor, purchaser, vendee a person who buys guesta customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. frequenter, patrona regular customer policyholdera person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written shoppersomeone who visits stores in search of articles to buy disburser, expender, spendersomeone who spends money to purchase goods or services reader, subscribersomeone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication takerone who accepts an offer warranteea customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given bargain huntera shopper who hunts for bargains customer agenta foreign purchaser who buys goods outright for resale home buyersomeone buying a house no-showa guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation operagoera patron of the opera orderersomeone who places an order to buy overnightera guest who stays overnight fixture, habitue, regulara regular patron shopaholica compulsive shopper consumer a person who uses goods or services |
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