Consumer

//kənˈsjuːmə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a person who uses goods or services wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

    "This new system favours the consumer over the producer."

  4. 4
    The consumer base of a product, service or business. broadly

    "Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class."

  5. 5
    An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

Etymology

From consume + -er.

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