sukin.
/ˈsuːki/, U.S. /ˈsuki/, Philippine English /ˈsuˌki/ Philippine English.
A buyer or seller involved in an arrangement whereby a customer regularly purchases products or services from the same provider in exchange for favourable treatment. Also: the arrangement itself.
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1941 Philippine Mag. June 248/1 Juan, a smart houseboy, proceeds to kid his suki, the Chinese tienda keeper.
1956 Silliman Jrnl. Oct. 345 A suki..between a businessman and a customer.
1973 W. G. Davis Social Relations in Philippine Market vii. 219 Buyers may themselves initiate the relationship by singling out some seller with whom they proceed to deal exclusively with the intent of becoming his suki.
1997 C. Cheng in Scribner's Best of Fiction Workshops 323 We heard rumblings..through my connections in the market... It was my suki, the pork dealer, who broke the early news.
2004 Anthropologica 46 194/2 Traders facilitate the sustainability of their business by negotiating a mutual understanding with their suppliers through customary suki relations.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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