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customer lifetime value

 
 
noun [C or U] (also lifetime customer value, also lifetime value, abbreviation CLV) COMMERCE

Definition

a calculation of how much profit a business could make from one customer over the whole period that they remain a customer: We calculate that the average driver has a customer lifetime value of $100,000, based on them buying a new car from us every four years.
(Definition of customer lifetime value noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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