Consumer vs Consumerize - What's the difference?
consumer | consumerize |
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.
To turn into a consumer.
To make suitable for mass consumption.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 16, author=David Pogue, title=The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R., work=New York Times
, passage=Nikon has tried to consumerize an existing S.L.R.; Canon has tried to S.L.R.-ize an existing consumer camera. }}
As a noun consumer
is one who, or that which, consumes.As a verb consumerize is
to turn into a consumer.consumer
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.
Derived terms
* anticonsumer * consumerist * consumerismAntonyms
* (economics) and (biology): producerSee also
biology * carnivore * decomposer * detritivore * first-order consumer * herbivore * omnivore * producer * scavenger * second-order consumer English agent nouns ----consumerize
English
Verb
(consumeriz)citation