Meaning & use
customer fulfilment centre
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Meaning
nouncountable
A large building where an online store keeps goods and sends them out to people who have ordered them.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a customer fulfilment centre' or 'two customer fulfilment centres'.
Patterns
- work at a customer fulfilment centre
- a customer fulfilment centre for a company
- goods stored in a customer fulfilment centre
The company opened a new customer fulfilment centre near the airport to handle online orders.
During the holiday season, thousands of workers are hired at the customer fulfilment centre.
My package was delayed because it was still at the customer fulfilment centre.
Word forms
| plural | customer fulfilment centres |
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Common combinations
- work at a customer fulfilment centre
- She works at a customer fulfilment centre packing orders.
- open a customer fulfilment centre
- The retailer plans to open a customer fulfilment centre in the north.
- a customer fulfilment centre for something
- This is a customer fulfilment centre for a major online supermarket.
- goods stored in a customer fulfilment centre
- The goods stored in a customer fulfilment centre are ready for shipping.
Synonyms and how they differ
- distribution center
- A more general term for a building that stores and sends goods, not necessarily directly to customers; it can also supply shops.
- warehouse
- A large building for storing goods, but it may not involve sending individual orders to customers.
- fulfillment center
- The American spelling of the same term; use this in US English.
Word family
- fulfilment noun
- The act of doing what is required or promised; also the process of packing and sending orders.
- fulfil verb
- To do what is needed or promised; in business, to process and send an order.
- fulfilling adjective
- Making you feel happy and satisfied, as in 'a fulfilling job'.
Commonly confused: customer fulfilment centre or fulfillment center?
customer fulfilment centre vs fulfillment center
This is the American spelling; 'customer fulfilment centre' is the British spelling with 'fulfilment' and 'centre'.
Practice
Which sentence uses the term correctly?
Choose one answer.
A customer fulfilment centre is specifically for storing goods and sending them to customers. Designing products (option 0), meeting clients (option 2), or repairing items (option 3) are not the main function of a fulfilment centre.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “customer fulfilment centre”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.