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Customer

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.

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Buyer 76% connected

One who buys; a purchaser.

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Disburser 76% connected

One who disburses money.

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Frequenter 76% connected

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

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Guest 76% connected

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

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John 76% connected

A proper name of a man.

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Patron 76% connected

One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.

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Purchaser 76% connected

One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

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Reader 76% connected

One who reads.

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Shopper 76% connected

One who shops.

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Spender 76% connected

One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

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Subscriber 76% connected

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

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Taker 76% connected

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

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Trick 76% connected

An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.

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Vendee 76% connected

The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.

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Warrantee 76% connected

The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

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Whoremonger 76% connected

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.

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Broader term 1

Consumer 76% connected

One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

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Client 92% connected

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

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