Customer vs. Employer — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Customer and Employer
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Customer
In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.
Employer
To provide work to (someone) for pay
Agreed to employ the job applicant.
Customer
A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business
Mr Harrison was a regular customer at the Golden Lion
Employer
To engage the attention or activity of; occupy
Employed himself for an hour reading blogs.
Customer
A person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal
He's a tough customer
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Employer
To put (something) to use or service
Employed a pen to open the package.
Employed her skills in the new job.
Customer
One that buys goods or services, as from a store or business.
Employer
To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose
Employed several months in learning Swahili.
Customer
(Informal) An individual with whom one must deal
That teacher is a tough customer.
Employer
The state of being employed
In the employ of the city.
Customer
(obsolete) A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; one who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
Employer
(Archaic) An occupation.
Customer
A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
Every person who passes by is a potential customer.
Employer
A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
Customer
(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
A cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
Employer
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
Customer
A native official who exacted customs duties.
Employer
A person or firm that employs workers
Customer
One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths.
Customer
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.
Customer
A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
Customer
A peculiar person; - in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.
Customer
A lewd woman.
Customer
Someone who pays for goods or services
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