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Customer vs Renter - What's the difference?

customer | renter |

As nouns the difference between customer and renter

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 renter is one who rents property from another.

As a verb renter is

to sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

customer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A patron; 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 .
  • (informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
    • a cool customer''''', ''a tough '''customer''''', ''an ugly '''customer

    Related terms

    * consuetude * costumal * costume * custom * customary * customization * customize * customs

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    renter

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rents property from another.
  • (legal) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
    • Synonyms
    * (one who rents property from another) lessee, tenant, rentee * (one who rents property to another) lessor, landlord
    Usage notes
    Technically, in common legal usage, the term should refer only to the party who owns the property and allows another to rent it. The party paying for the use of the property is properly termed a rentee. However, common usage is to use the term to refer to the party paying for use of the property, and this usage has seeped into legal parlance as well.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) rentraire; (etyl) (lena) prefix (re-) re- + (in) into, in + (trahere) to draw.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  • to restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

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