What is the difference between consumer and producer?
consumer | producer | Antonyms |
One who, or that which, consumes.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, 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.
(economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 One who produces an artistic production like a CD, a theater production, a film, a TV program and so on.
(biology) An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
(UK, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven days in which to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
(archaic) A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.
Producer is a antonym of consumer.
In economics terms the difference between consumer and producer
is that consumer is someone who trades money for goods as an individual while producer is an individual or organization that creates goods and services.In biology terms the difference between consumer and producer
is that consumer is an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy while producer is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.As nouns the difference between consumer and producer
is that consumer is one who, or that which, consumes while producer is an individual or organization that creates goods and services.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 ----producer
English
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.}}
