Buyer vs Consumer - What's the difference?
buyer | consumer |
A person who makes one or more purchases.
(retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
(manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
One who, or that which, consumes.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
(biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
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)- Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer , so acknowledge their presence.
- The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.
Synonyms
* (retailing and manufacturing senses) purchasing agentDerived terms
* buyer's remorseAnagrams
* * English agent nounsconsumer
English
(wikipedia consumer)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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.}}
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.