consumer
a person or thing that consumes.
Economics. a person or organization that uses a commodity or service.
Ecology. an organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals.
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Origin of consumer
1Other words from consumer
- con·sum·er·ship, noun
- an·ti·con·sum·er, noun, adjective
- non·con·sum·er, adjective, noun
- pre·con·sum·er, noun
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How to use consumer in a sentence
As the low-carb trends declined in the mid-aughts, so too did consumer appetites for blandly seasoned grain cakes.
The Rise and Fall of the Rice Cake, America’s One-Time Favorite Health Snack | Brenna Houck | September 17, 2020 | EaterIn the latest example of bolstering its first-party data offering for advertisers, Vice Media Group is using a new tool from consumer reporting agency Experian and data platform Infosum.
‘Re-architecting the entire process’: How Vice is preparing for life after the third-party cookie | Lara O'Reilly | September 17, 2020 | DigidayThe silver lining in all this—for the state of Americans’ personal finances, if not for retailers—seems to be a higher savings rate among consumers.
What retailers should expect going into a holiday season during a pandemic | Rachel King | September 16, 2020 | FortuneOpendoor struggled in the early days of the pandemic, laying off 600 employees, or 35% of its workforce, in April as consumers stayed at home.
It’s the very purpose of net neutrality that consumers can access everything the internet has to offer.
The EU’s top court just closed a major loophole in Europe’s net-neutrality rules | David Meyer | September 15, 2020 | Fortune
She appeared to be just a happy American consumer out shopping at a big-box store.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTZumbiel Packaging A Kentucky-based manufacturer of paperboard packaging for consumer goods.
These insights and discoveries help PepsiCo anticipate, rather than react to, an ever-changing consumer landscape.
What tastes great to an American consumer may not be what folks in China or India would choose to eat or drink.
At some point even the seemingly insatiable American consumer is going to have had his fill.
But suppose that the consumer, for the things which he himself makes and sells, or for the work which he performs, receives more?
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockFor a long time there were no contractors between the European sources of supply and the great consumer, the army.
The Supplies for the Confederate Army | Caleb HuseThe graduated scale was a complete failure, and equally injurious to the purchaser and consumer.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanSir, a consumer's delegation wishes to speak with you about the new Birthday Quotas.
The Great Potlatch Riots | Allen Kim LangTell that bunch of complainers I'll keep this District's economy healthy if I have to jail every consumer in it.
The Great Potlatch Riots | Allen Kim Lang
British Dictionary definitions for consumer
/ (kənˈsjuːmə) /
a person who acquires goods and services for his or her own personal needs: Compare producer (def. 6)
a person or thing that consumes
(usually plural) ecology an organism, esp an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals: See also decomposer, producer (def. 8)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for consumer
[ kən-sōō′mər ]
A heterotrophic organism that feeds on other organisms in a food chain.♦ Herbivores that feed on green plants and detritivores that feed on decaying matter are called primary consumers. Carnivores that feed on herbivores or detritivores are called secondary consumers, while those that feed on other carnivores are called tertiary consumers. Compare producer.
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Cultural definitions for consumer
Someone who purchases a good for personal use.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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