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Customer vs. Patron

Customer and Patron Definitions

Customer

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

Patron

One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor
A patron of the arts.

Customer

(Informal) An individual with whom one must deal
That teacher is a tough customer.

Patron

A customer, especially a regular customer.

Customer

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

Patron

(also pä-trōn) The owner or manager of an establishment, especially a restaurant or an inn of France or Spain.
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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.

Patron

A noble or wealthy person in ancient Rome who granted favor and protection to someone in exchange for certain services.

Customer

(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
A cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer

Patron

A slave owner in ancient Rome who freed a slave without relinquishing all legal claim to him.

Customer

A native official who exacted customs duties.

Patron

One who possesses the right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy.
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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.

Patron

A patron saint.

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.

Patron

One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.

Customer

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

Patron

A guardian or intercessor; patron saint.
St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.
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Customer

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

Patron

An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.

Customer

A lewd woman.

Patron

A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
This car park is for patrons only.

Customer

Someone who pays for goods or services

Patron

A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.

Patron

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

Patron

(nautical) A padrone.

Patron

A property owner, a landlord, a master. patroon.}}

Patron

To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

Patron

To treat as a patron.

Patron

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

Patron

A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
Let him who works the client wrongBeware the patron's ire.

Patron

One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

Patron

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

Patron

A guardian saint. - called also patron saint.

Patron

See Padrone, 2.

Patron

To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

Patron

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

Patron

A regular customer

Patron

The proprietor of an inn

Patron

Someone who supports or champions something

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