Word Meanings - CUSTOMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. 2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.

Additional info about word: CUSTOMER

1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. 2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. 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. 3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray. 4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. Dickens. 5. A lewd woman. Shak.

Related words: (words related to CUSTOMER)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• BUYER
  One who buys; a purchaser.
• KERSEYNETTE
  See CASSINETTE
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• CUSTOMARY
  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment.
• CUSTOMABLE
  1. Customary. Sir T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• CUSTOMHOUSE
  The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.
• SUBSIDY
  stationed in reserve in the third line of battlem reserve, support, help, fr. subsidere to sit down, lie in wait: cf. F. subside. See 1. Support; aid; coöperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• REDEMAND
  To demand back; to demand again.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.