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

(en noun)

A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}

A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.