Customer vs. Guest — What's the Difference?

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.

One who is a recipient of hospitality at the home or table of another.

A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business

One to whom entertainment or hospitality has been extended by another in the role of host or hostess, as at a party.

A person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal

One who pays for meals or accommodations at a restaurant, hotel, or other establishment; a patron.

One that buys goods or services, as from a store or business.

A distinguished visitor to whom the hospitality of an institution, city, or government is extended.

(Informal) An individual with whom one must deal

A visiting performer, speaker, or contestant, as on a radio or television program.

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

(Zoology) A commensal organism, especially an insect that lives in the nest or burrow of another species.

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

To entertain as a guest.

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

To appear as a guest

A native official who exacted customs duties.

Provided for guests

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.

Participating as a guest

One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.

A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.

A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

A peculiar person; - in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.

An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

A lewd woman.

(computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.

Someone who pays for goods or services

(zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

(zoology) An inquiline.

(intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast

(intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)

To receive or entertain hospitably.

A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.

A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.

Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

To receive or entertain hospitably.

To be, or act the part of, a guest.

A visitor to whom hospitality is extended

United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)

A customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.

(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

Staying temporarily;