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Consumer vs Unsell - What's the difference?

consumer | unsell |

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

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 ----

    unsell

    English

    Verb

  • To cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
  • * 1983 , Thomas C. Kinnear, Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Dynamics of marketing principles: a reader
  • 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...
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 9, author=Robert A. Lopes; As Told To Amy Zipkin, title=A Sporting Chance, work=New York Times citation
  • , 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." }}