Consumer vs Unsell - What's the difference?
consumer | unsell |
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.
To cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
* 1983 , Thomas C. Kinnear, Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Dynamics of marketing principles: a reader
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 9, author=Robert A. Lopes; As Told To Amy Zipkin, title=A Sporting Chance, work=New York Times
, passage=After the meeting Bob grabbed me by the ear and told me, "Once you make the sale, shut up and don't unsell it." }}
As a noun consumer
is one who, or that which, consumes.As a verb unsell is
to cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.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 ----unsell
English
Verb
- At the same time, every effort to unsell something may also be viewed as an effort to sell something else. Those who attempt to unsell cigarette smoking are attempting to sell health...
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