new customer; new client
Polite term used in business contexts, often with さん or 様 (e.g., ご新規さん, ご新規様). Refers to a first-time customer or client.
See also: 新規
We had ten new customers this month.
There is a first-time discount for new customers.
ご新規 adds the honorific ご- to 新規 and is the polite way shopkeepers or staff refer to a new customer, while 新規 alone is the plain business term.
Standard polite spelling with honorific prefix ご.
Formal kanji spelling using 御 for ご; less common in everyday writing.
Combination of the honorific prefix ご and 新規 (new, fresh). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it is a conventional polite expression for a new customer.