Consumer

//kənˈsjuːmə// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1
One who, or that which, consumes.
"But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal."
2
a person who uses goods or services wordnet
3
Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
"This new system favours the consumer over the producer."
4
The consumer base of a product, service or business. broadly
"Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class."
5
An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

Synonyms

customer board-and-roomer boarder bon vivant brillat-savarin browser

Antonyms

Example

"Try to be a more rational consumer."

Etymology

From consume + -er.

Related phrases

anti-consumer business-to-business-to-consumer business-to-consumer conspicuous consumer consumer brand consumer credit consumer good consumer price index consumer research consumer resistance consumer rights consumer society

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