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customer
noun- a person, or any creature, generally qualified as a type UK, 1589
- Should you so wish, you can typecast the most awkward customer to your whim. — Guardian, 3 August 2002
- any person who is subject to a social worker’s professional or charitable attention UK
A patronising categorisation, now replaced with the equally dishonest “client.” - bDo-gooders who visit patients in hospitals, or elderly people in their homes, sometimes call them “customers”. — Albert E. Petch, 1966
- a motorist being stopped by a police officer for a traffic violation US
- — American Speech, p. 268, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- a potential shop-lifter UK, 1995
In UK Disney Stores in the mid-1990s staff were instructed to refer to customers as “guests”–anyone referred to as a “customer” was instantly the subject of an unwelcome attention. - a prisoner US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 63, 1949
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