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.

Noun

(wikipedia employer) (en noun)

A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer , and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}

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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.