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consumer | consumerlike |

As a noun consumer

is one who, or that which, consumes.

As an adjective consumerlike is

resembling or characteristic of a consumer.

consumer

English

(wikipedia consumer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, consumes.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 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.}}
  • (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 ----

    consumerlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a consumer.
  • * 2004 , Murray Pomerance, Bad: infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen?
    • ...earnestly starts looking for an apartment, and uses her free time to spend money in typical consumerlike fashion on cheap wares for her new place.
  • * 2008 , Valerie Ruhe, Bruno D Zumbo, Evaluation in Distance Education and E-Learning: The Unfolding Model
    • With the consumer approach, evaluators produce independent, consumerlike assessments where the consumer's welfare is the ultimate value.