What is the difference between consumer and consumption?
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One who, or that which, consumes.
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, 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.
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
Consumption is a related term of consumer.
As nouns the difference between consumer and consumption
is that consumer is one who, or that which, consumes while consumption is the act of consuming something.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 ----consumption
English
Noun
(-)- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- gross national consumption