consumer

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Since the average consumer is inundated by commercial messages from both the print and the electronic media, the merchant needs any edge he can get to capture the attention of a potential customer.

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  1. noun One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.
  2. noun A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.

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  • Since the average consumer is inundated by commercial messages from both the print and the electronic media, the merchant needs any edge he can get to capture the attention of a potential customer. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
  • "Schweppes, le ` drink 'des gens raffinés" or an American consumer is told that a certain manufacturer has "the savoir faire to design la crème de la crème of luxurious silky knits," the foreign words do not say anything that could not be as easily said by native ones. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
  • JOAN CLAYBROOK, PUBIC CITIZEN: This agreement by Sears and the lawyers for the consumer is a real deal. —  CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008
  • JOAN CLAYBROOK, PUBLIC CITIZEN: This agreement by Sears and the lawyers for the consumer is a real deal. —  CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008
  • And the good news for the consumer is these deals aren't over. —  CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009
 

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