Scavenger vs Consumer - What's the difference?
scavenger | consumer |
(obsolete) A street sweeper.
Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
(chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
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English agent nouns
English twice-borrowed terms
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 scavenger and consumer
is that scavenger is a street sweeper while consumer is one who, or that which, consumes.scavenger
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* scavenger beetle * scavenger crab * scavenger's daughter * scavReferences
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.
