dissatisfied customer

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meaningsofdissatisfiedandcustomer

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dissatisfied
adjective
uk
/ˌdɪsˈsæt.ɪs.faɪd/us
/ˌdɪsˈsæt̬.əs.faɪd/
not pleased with something; feeling that something is not as good as it ...
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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 ofdissatisfiedandcustomerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I do not think they have any intelligence system for recording thedissatisfiedcustomer, who ultimately buys something in a shop, but does so unwillingly.
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It is up to adissatisfiedcustomer, in the appropriate cases, to use it.
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To whom does adissatisfiedcustomercomplain if there is no statutory body to monitor and regulate private security firms?
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One well-known rule of marketing says that adissatisfiedcustomertells eleven people and that a satisfied person only tells four people.
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The satisfied customer is our greatest marketing tool; thedissatisfiedcustomeris our greatest marketing threat.
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Adissatisfiedcustomerwill get no choice.
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One hears comments from individuals who have been dissatisfied customers and from those who read the adverse press comments.
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Yet the fact remains that this operation has left a disturbingly large number of dissatisfied customers.
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I have made the calculation on the back of an envelope: the figure is almost 2 million dissatisfied customers.
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In these modern times the private sector cannot put up with so many dissatisfied customers who will only speak ill of the business.
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Retailers cannot hope to win business by treating customers badly, and dissatisfied customers can always turn to alternative suppliers.
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These machines seem to have attracted a quite unprecedentedly large number of complaints from dissatisfied customers.
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It is seldom that people complain to me as dissatisfied customers.
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They have done exactly the same thing all over again, leaving behind a trail of dissatisfied customers.
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The large number of dissatisfied customers are the ones who matter.
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It certainly could not have received complaints from dissatisfied customers.
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They go home and tell their neighbours; and we do not then have satisfied customers but dissatisfied customers.
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Without competition, the state sector monopolies quickly became inefficient and overmanned, with low productivity, dissatisfied customers and frequent financial losses.
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Poverty pay inevitably leads to high staff turnover, high absenteeism, poorly trained staff, low productivity, dissatisfied customers and cancelled orders.
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If that is the case, a great many dissatisfied customers will be queueing at the door of the outgoers scheme.
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