customer

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a person who buys something
shopperHoliday shoppers mobbed the sale.
customerShops were lowering prices to attract more customers.
punterUKThe shop's running a raffle to pull in the punters.
patronShe's been a regular patron of the pub for years.
consumerConsumers did not spend as much last quarter as analysts predicted.
buyerWe haven't found a buyer for the house yet.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who buy things
anti-consumer
bidder
buyer
consumer
couponer
end user
foot traffic
importer
late adopter
multi-client
personal shopper
prosumer
purchaser
rag-and-bone man
ragman
speculator
subscriber
tradesman
tradespeople
wholesaler

patron | American Dictionary

patron
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpeɪ·trən/

patronnoun[C] (SUPPORTER)

a person or group that gives money or support to a person, an activity, or an organization:
Auchincloss is a longtime patron of the arts.

patronnoun[C] (CUSTOMER)

a customer of a store, restaurant, hotel, etc., esp. a regular customer

patron | Business English

patron
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpeɪtrən/us
COMMERCE formal
someone who uses a particular shop, restaurant, hotel, etc., especially regularly:
This car park is for patrons only.
a person or company that supports an activity or a public organization, especially by giving money:
arts patron/patron of the artsThe company has been a longtime patron of the arts.

Examples of patron

patron
Poems which show no trace of a late composition, however, are also deeply sceptical of wealthy patrons.
Still, in this poem she is examining a condition into which she would enter by seeking patrons for her verse.
From the 1880s he moved among the patrons of the arts as well as the practitioners.
Such events see the patron's own sensibilities meander through very different architectural cultures.
Here again the house was refined to express his patron's nobility.
Small wonder that even his usual patrons showed little interest in the conversations.
Of course, not everyone had access to such powerful patrons, so it is no surprise that only the most famous musicians could skip the broker.
Their ability to impose the constraints and obligations of reciprocity upon their patrons considerably weakened.
Are people in moving rooms, patrons of the cinema, and users of virtual reality devices really fooled?
The ambiguous warmth of patronage existed uneasily with the profound desire to become patrons.
They encouraged them to chat and flirt with patrons and to behave like a girlfriend.
They emerged as eager patrons of medical learning.
At lower levels, where economic surpluses are produced, individuals resist patrons as far as they are able without breaking the bonds of patronage.
He provided schools, housing, social and medical benefits to his workers and encouraged other patrons to follow suit.
The canons, she reminds us, had their own legal rights and their own network of patrons.
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