| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customers of business |
| Synonyms: | audience, business, clientage, clientry, clients, constituency, cortege, dependents, following, market, patronage, patrons, public, regulars, trade |
| Antonyms: | management, ownership |
| Main Entry: | following |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons of an interest or belief |
| Synonyms: | adherents, audience, circle, clientage, clientele, cortege, coterie, dependents, entourage, fans, group, groupies, hangers-on, patronage, patrons, public, retinue, rout, suite, support, supporters, train |
| Antonyms: | disbelievers |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business done at an establishment |
| Synonyms: | buying, clientage, clientele, commerce, custom, shopping, trade, trading, traffic |
| Antonyms: | competition |
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people of community; people interested in something |
| Synonyms: | audience, bodies, buyers, citizens, clientele, commonalty, community, country, electorate, everyone, followers, following, heads, masses, men and women, mob, multitude, nation, patrons, people, populace, population, society, suite, supporters, voters |
| Main Entry: | shopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customer |
| Synonyms: | browser, buyer, client, clientele, consumer, patron, prospect, purchaser, window-shopper |
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, customers, deal, dealing, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, merchantry, patronage, public, sales, swap, traffic, transaction, truck |