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Student vs Consumer - What's the difference?

student | consumer |

As nouns the difference between student and consumer

is that student is student while consumer is one who, or that which, consumes.

student

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who studies a particular academic subject.
  • A student of philosophy.
  • (figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
  • He is a student of life.
  • A person enrolled at a university.
  • The students were out raising funds for rag week.
  • (chiefly, North America) A schoolchild.
  • Synonyms

    * (person who studies a particular subject) scholar * (person seriously devoted to some subject) devotee * (schoolchild) pupil, schoolchild * disciple

    Antonyms

    * teacher

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    consumer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, consumes.
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  • (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 ----