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Webster 1913 Edition


Consumer

Con-sum′er

(kŏn-sūm′ẽr)
,
Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, consumes;
as, the
consumer
of food
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Consumer

CONSUMER

,
Noun.
One who consumes, spends, wastes or destroys; that which consumes.

Definition 2024


consumer

consumer

English

Noun

consumer (plural consumers)

  1. 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.
  2. (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
    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.

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biology


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃syme/

Verb

consumer

  1. to consume; to use up
  2. (figuratively) to consume

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