consumer
Academic Word List, sublist 2.
About 25.14 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun One who, or that which, consumes.
- noun Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
- noun The consumer base of a product, service or business.
Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
- noun An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
Similar words
user customer client agent commodity consumerism buyer retail purchaser purchasing
Often followed by
goods and price protection products demand credit is behavior
Word family
consume consumed consumers consumership consumerships consumes consuming consumption
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