Customer vs Constituent - What's the difference?
customer | constituent |
A patron; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
being a part, or component of a whole
* Dryden
authorized to make a constitution
* Junius
a part, or component of a whole
* Tyndall
The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
* Sir M. Hale
A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-news
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, date=April 19
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, title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?
, work=the Guardian
(legal) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
(grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.
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As nouns the difference between customer and constituent
is that customer is a patron; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so while constituent is a part, or component of a whole.As an adjective constituent is
being a part, or component of a whole.customer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Every person who passes by is a potential customer .
- a cool customer''''', ''a tough '''customer''''', ''an ugly '''customer
Anagrams
*constituent
English
Adjective
(-)- Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
- A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
Noun
(en noun)- We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
- Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
- To appeal from the representatives to the constituents .
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- (Burrill)
- Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase'' constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive 's inflection in English without saying that it's a ''Noun Phrase inflection.
