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One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.

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  1. n. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
  2. n. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
  3. n. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
  4. n. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.
  5. n. A lewd woman.
  6. n. someone who pays for goods or services
  7. 1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.] 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. [Colloq.] Dickens. 5. A lewd woman. [Obs.] Shak.
  8. n:100 n. someone who pays for goods or services