potential customer

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandcustomer

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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customer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkʌs.tə.mər/us
/ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ/
a person who buys goods or ...
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(Definition ofpotentialandcustomerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, the chance for this quickly passed as subsequent calls for subscriptions began to target an ever largerpotentialcustomerbase.
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Bill comes into the shop as apotentialcustomer, asking to buy a certain tool.
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The price relation and the comparative charges are made clear to thepotentialcustomer, with a minimum of detailed inspection, when he shops around.
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I wonder whether they ought not to recommend apotentialcustomerto buy the goods of a named firm.
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Thepotentialcustomerfor the rig will judge whether the management is adequate.
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Inevitably, apotentialcustomeroverseas for our cattle would hesitate for some months before buying our cattle.
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I began by teaching marketing techniques such as how to discover what the customers want and how to create empathy with apotentialcustomer.
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It is lamentably easy to win the sort of reputation which drives apotentialcustomeraway.
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The salesman must be prepared to jump into an aeroplane at an hour's notice to get together with thepotentialcustomer.
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A salesman may call on apotentialcustomer, and, after making inquiries, may decide that he is not a desirable customer.
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Development of aircraft must to a great extent depend on co-operation between the manufacturer and thepotentialcustomer.
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Clearly, if a retailer decides not to stock the magazines there will not be great difficulty for thepotentialcustomerin obtaining them.
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A customer orpotentialcustomerwants to buy a television set.
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Frankly, that would have been the view of any sensible person who, as apotentialcustomer, had read the forms.
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There is apotentialcustomerwho wants good quality free-range eggs.
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Everypotentialcustomerfrom abroad has an option.
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This is not about where action interferes with the customer, but where the intention of that action is to interfere with the customer orpotentialcustomer.
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It stated that education and training was a potential application area but that the education sector had no money to spend nowadays and that it was not apotentialcustomer.
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The essence of this commercial freedom was that the railways would not have to publish their rates; they could bargain with anypotentialcustomerabout the rates to be charged.
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