(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
(v. t.) To supply with customers.
(v. i.) To have a custom.
(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
(v. t.) To pay the customs of.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(4) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(5) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(6) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(7) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(8) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(9) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(10) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(11) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(12) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(13) TalkTalk said customers should monitor their accounts over the coming months and report anything unusual to Action Fraud.
(14) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(15) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(16) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."
(17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(18) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(19) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(20) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
Custos
Definition:
(n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the oscillatory resistance was also determined by means of the custo vit (Customed), the frequency of the pump producing the oscillation being variable so that measurements were carried out successively at different frequencies.
(2) With the aim of determining the significance of the principle of the multi-frequency forced oscillation technique employed by the custo vit to determine the airway resistance, measurements were performed on a number of test subjects, employing a unit available with three different software modifications.
(3) The forced oscillation technique employing the custo vit and the use of a facemask under conditions of normal breathing is, accordingly, a reliable method for determining nasal resistance.
(4) The differences in comparison with other methods are critically examined, and proposals made for a further improvement of the forced oscillation technique employed by the custo vit.
(5) Measurements were performed using a device manufactured by the firm of Custo, which makes possible the direct determination of oscillatory pressure and alternating flow at the mouth.
(6) The correlation of the data of the nasal and bronchial resistance is significant between custo vit on the one hand, and the Siregnost FD 5 and rhinometry on the other.
(7) In order to be able to estimate the diagnostic relevance and comparability of the impedance curves R(f) and X(f), their form-specific characteristics R = R(5)-R(20) and X(5), as also the equipment-specific parameters Ros (Siregnost FD5) and Rfo (custo vit), the relationships of these oscillatory parameters to Raw and CL were simulated in a structural model of the respiratory system, and tested in the real system.
(8) Initial measurements with the custo vit suggest that the used reference resistance in the FD 5 is responsible for this.
(9) A differentiation of healthy subjects from patients with low-grade obstruction by means of the FD 5, requires the establishment of the phase angle (phi), too, while in the case of the custo vit unit, this is possible by demonstrating the frequency dependence of the impedance.
(10) Forced oscillation measurements of airway resistance employing the custo vit and Siregnost FD 5, the interruptor technique and classical rhinomanometry for the measurement of nasal resistance, were compared.
(11) In addition, the oscillatory resistance was determined with the custo vit unit (Customed), the frequency of the pump generating the oscillation being selectable (Ros2), so that successive measurements were made at different frequencies.
(12) It was also confirmed that the phase angles, also obtainable with the custo vit, play a considerable role in the significant differentiation of the degree of obstruction.
(13) The custo vit is available in different technical versions.
(14) In the case of the measurement of the airway resistance with the custo vit at resonance frequency, a poorer differentiation between normal subjects and patients with obstruction was obtained as compared with measurements made at a fixed frequency of 6 Hz.
(15) At slight and moderate elevations in bronchial flow resistance, a better agreement was found between the custo vit resistance figure and body plethysmography.
(16) When measuring the airway resistance with the custo vit at the frequency of resonance there was poorer differentiation between normal and obstructed subjects compared to a measurement at a fixed frequencies yielded comparable values for both methods.