Consumer
/kənˈsjuːmə/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College 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.
Example
More examples"Try to be a more rational consumer."
Etymology
From consume + -er.