Recipient vs Consumer - What's the difference?
recipient | consumer |
One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.
(medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
(chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
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.
As nouns the difference between recipient and consumer
is that recipient is container, vessel, recipient while consumer is one who, or that which, consumes.recipient
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(en noun)Usage notes
"Recipient" is often reserved for the act of receiving such things as awards or medals. "receiver" is used for insignificant items.See also
* (Still) ----consumer
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(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.
