CUSTOMERS Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

customers

noun

plural of customer

as in clients

a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business the store greatly values its regular customers

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as in people

a member of the human race he's one tough customer, so you'd better not cross him

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Recent Examples of customers For even more flight savings, post-booking, the first 100 customers can unlock 28% off their next eligible round-trip Economy flight (valid for departures between January 8 and May 23, 2027). — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026 Older buyers Builders may finally be acknowledging the advanced ages of many of their customers. — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 On the beers list, customers have their pick of New England and tropical IPAs, plus wheats, stouts and amber ales, CharlotteFive previously reported. — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026 Private jet companies need to get their plane to its next pickup destination, regardless of whether there are customers on board or not. — Elliott Harrell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2026 On its Dreamliners, first-class customers will soon be able to close sliding doors around their seats for privacy. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 Since launching commercially in November 2025, the startup has signed about 15 customers, Diegruber told Fortune. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 BlackBerry sells encrypted and secure communications products to customers like governments. — Arjun Kharpal,kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 As a re-export hub, the UAE processed shipments from foreign suppliers reluctant to deal directly with Iranian customers. — Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Defense attorneys in both cases argued that the defendants’ intent was in question, raising in argument the possibility that their clients were not trying to cause serious bodily injury or death.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026
Kaufman was a Jewish émigré from Buenos Aires who had clients in Manhattan and had been commissioned to build another house on the island for shoe designer Danny Berk.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of clients

Noun

Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026

Definition of people

Noun

Some of his bar inventions, for instance, were less grand thematic ideas and simply tricks to keep patrons indoors and ordering.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Matisse couldn’t have felt neutrally about Amélie making crowns for the same class of wealthy patrons who refused to support him.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of patrons

Noun

The event was full of food and fun for both the adult guests and the twins’ little friends.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
The current bowling alley sits in the basement of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, just west of the White House, and is reserved for White House aides and their guests.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of guests

Noun

Steinem then went on to become a freelance journalist in New York during the 1960s — when newsrooms were largely run by men and female reporters were typically restricted in the topics they were allowed to cover.

— Juliana Kim, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026
Two men were arrested in connection with the deaths on Wednesday, in a joint operation involving the State of Mexico Prosecutor’s Office, the federal Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection and the Mexico City Secretariat of Citizen Security.

— Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of men

Noun

Released in 2025, the first part of Julia Loktev’s monumental documentary project My Undesirable Friends, subtitled Last Air in Moscow, gave us a sprawling, breathless look at a few devastating months in the lives of Russian journalists.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
God willing, that place will be juvenile court, where the lives of these young people can be respected and honored.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of lives

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