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A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

Airlines are the chief customers of the commercial divisions of large-aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer.
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  • “Big props to Rocket.net: after I offloaded my images to S3 and told them I no longer needed the $60 1TB bandwidth add-on, they refunded the charge they'd levied a few days ago. Their customer service is amazing”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “ICYMI: Sierra is raising $950 million at a $15.8 billion valuation: The customer service AI startup reached $150 million in annual recurring revenue in its first eight quarters”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Discord needs a competitor that does almost the same exact shit, maybe with a few extra bells and whistles, but isnt going to try to ID you and also has actual human customer support. It should be illegal to not have a person that actually speaks with complainants.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Day 4: Create a before-and-after narrative based on the customer's journey. Day 5: Summarize the testimonial as a checklist or lesson. Day 6: Share a related insight from your own experience. Day 7: Revisit the original testimonial with a fresh angle. (2/3)”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “One customer testimonial can anchor an entire week of social proof content. Here is the framework we use. Day 1: Publish the testimonial verbatim. Day 2: Extract a single benefit and expand it into a tip. Day 3: Rephrase the testimonial as a question to spark conversation. (1/3)”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.

a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
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  • “Agentic AI, fraud, and the fight for customer loyalty is.gd/1QMdic”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “That increased the customer base along that block by more than triple. But somehow people still think cars bring customers.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Making money implies there is a customer willing and able to pay. Once you stop hiring goobers, once you reduce your eventual customer base and your customers’ customer base etc. You break the circle of the economy and you can’t make money.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 $𝟵𝟱𝟬𝗠 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Life should be simple and fashionable. Writing novels and shit is a way to gain a living. - John Ashbery, “My Own Best Customer””

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(obsolete) A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.

Every person who passes by is a potential customer.
Origin: From , from , costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from , from pertaining to custom or customs, from custom, tax. More at custom.. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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