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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈsjuːmə/, /kənˈʃuːmə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kənˈsumɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kənˈsjʉːmə/
- Hyphenation: con‧su‧mer
- Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Noun
consumer (plural consumers)
- One who, or that which, consumes.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- 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.
- (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
- Antonym: producer
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
- 2023 February 23, Parija Kavilanz, “Americans have a collective $21 billion in unspent gift cards”, in CNN:
- Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
- 2024 May 30, Bryan Mena and Nathaniel Meyersohn, “The American shopping spree is losing steam”, in CNN:
- A second estimate of gross domestic product, released Thursday, showed that consumer spending was weaker in the first three months of the year than initially reported.
- (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
- Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
- (ecology) An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
- Antonym: producer
- Hyponyms: carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, first-order consumer, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, second-order consumer
Derived terms
- anticonsumer
- anti-consumer
- business-to-business-to-consumer
- business-to-consumer
- consoomer
- conspicuous consumer
- consumer brand
- consumer credit
- consumerdom
- consumer good
- consumer-grade
- consumerish
- consumerism
- consumerist
- consumerization
- consumerize
- consumerlike
- consumer price index
- consumer research
- consumer resistance
- consumer rights
- consumership
- consumer society
- consumer surplus
- consumer unit
- consumer whore
- cyberconsumer
- direct-to-consumer
- end-consumer
- end consumer
- macroconsumer
- mesoconsumer
- metaconsumer
- microconsumer
- multiconsumer
- mystery consumer
- nonconsumer
- postconsumer
- preconsumer
- prosumer
- secondary consumer
- smoke consumer
- transumer
Related terms
Translations
that or who which consumes
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person purchasing goods
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Further reading
consumer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “consumer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- consumer in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Consumer”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 78
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consumer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
consumer
- to consume; to use up
- (figuratively) to consume
- Synonym: consommer
Conjugation
Conjugation of consumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “consumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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