customer vs dealer

customer

noun
  • A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so. 

  • A native official who exacted customs duties. 

  • A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others. 

dealer

noun
  • One who deals or metes out anything. 

  • A particular type of stock broker or trader. 

  • One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman. 

  • A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs. 

  • The person who deals the cards in a card game. 

How often have the words customer and dealer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )