consumer

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English

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Etymology

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From consume +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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consumer (plural consumers)

  1. One who, or that which, consumes.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
      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. (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
    Antonym: producer
    This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
  3. (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
    Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
  4. (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

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin cōnsūmere (to devour, waste, use up).

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Verb

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consumer

  1. to consume; to use up
  2. (figuratively) to consume
    Synonym: consommer

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