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Buyer vs Consumer - What's the difference?

buyer | consumer |

As nouns the difference between buyer and consumer

is that buyer is event while consumer is one who, or that which, consumes.

buyer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who makes one or more purchases.
  • Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer , so acknowledge their presence.
  • (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
  • The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.
  • (manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
  • Synonyms

    * (retailing and manufacturing senses) purchasing agent

    Derived terms

    * buyer's remorse

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns

    consumer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, consumes.
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  • (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
  • This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
  • (biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
  • Derived terms

    * anticonsumer * consumerist * consumerism

    Antonyms

    * (economics) and (biology): producer

    See also

    biology * carnivore * decomposer * detritivore * first-order consumer * herbivore * omnivore * producer * scavenger * second-order consumer English agent nouns ----