Customer vs Clientele - What's the difference?
customer | clientele |
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.
The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 34 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
As nouns the difference between customer and clientele
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 clientele is the body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.customer
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Noun
(en noun)- Every person who passes by is a potential customer .
- a cool customer''''', ''a tough '''customer''''', ''an ugly '''customer
Anagrams
*clientele
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*Noun
(en-noun)- As a sex worker, Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
- The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor ”.