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Consumer vs Devourer - What's the difference?

consumer | devourer |

As nouns the difference between consumer and devourer

is that consumer is one who, or that which, consumes while devourer is one who devours.

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 ----

    devourer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who devours.
  • * 1774 , Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (page 354)
    • It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----