Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who consumes, destroys, wastes, or spends; that which consumes.
- n. Specifically, in polit, econ., one who destroys the exchangeable value of a commodity by using it: the opposite of producer.
Wiktionary
- n. One who, or that which, consumes.
- n. economics someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
- n. biology an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, consumes.
- n. (Econ.) the person or organization that uses some item of commerce or service in its own acitities, as opposed to reselling the item or including it as part of another item for resale; -- called also the
end user .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who uses goods or services
Examples
“The term consumer makes you into nothing more than a machine that devours goods and services.”
“Last Week's Challenge: From Ed Pegg Jr., who runs the website MathPuzzle.com: Take the phrase "consumer protection laws," and rearrange the letters to name a person in broadcasting and an issue of public debate.”
“So with that, I think the term "consumer" is appropriate.”
“Every time I hear the word consumer instead of patient, an angel dies.”
“My problem with the term "consumer" is the same one that”
“I often use MUIs in the business environment, and not having access to them as a consumer is an annoyance.”
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“But the consumer is the one making the choice, right?”
“Strict: But the consumer is the one making the choice, right?”
“When it come to prepared ready to eat foods with high salt content (i.e. not cupcakes), the consumer is always free to adjust the salt content upwards to his liking.”
“The idea that financial institutions are responsible entities, capable of adequately managing risk to maximize payoff without undue harm to the consumer is a complete joke.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘consumer’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Keywords, by Raymond Williams
From a book about life and death.
aesthetic, alienation, art, behaviour, bourgeois, bureaucracy, capitalism, career, charity, city, civilization, class and 99 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Nouns
a component, an aspect, an element, significant growth, transition, hiccups, labour, predecessor, delight, lawsuit, penchant, entrepreneurship and 23 more...
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Lingering Irritation
Intensely disliked words from (a) grad program(s) in social sciences. At first they sound tricky and important. Take note! "Modeling is an important aspect in education. Eschew obfuscation."
...zeitgeist, praxis, cathexis, dissertation, reflexive, reflective, empathetic, empathic, paucity, diversity, intervention, efficacy and 23 more...
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Tourism Department. Unit 4
takeover, merger, reach, challenge, holidaymakers, profit, saturation, profitability, significant, sign, signature, success and 36 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Shopaholic!
shop, store, kiosk, mall, retail, market, supermarket, bodega, superstore, bazaar, marketplace, pharmacy and 23 more...
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americana
burger, baseball, fat, jesus, fast food, capitalism, hungry, domination, imperialism, empire, ghetto, redneck and 6 more...
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joshleejosh's Words
inchoate, garner, oft, hydrocephalitic, twee, dorktacular, tic, discourse, coded, avuncular, maleficent, saguaro and 46 more...
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Contemporary Communication Theory
pluralism, epistemology, aphorism, maxim, conation, dystopia, typology, pedagogy, positivism, modernism, polysemic, panoptic and 36 more...
Tweets
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vermontster How the hell did "consumer" become an advocacy term for people using mental health services?? Does that mean I was a producer? How is that empowering for anyone? Quick! Buy more! -- Save the economy, buy a Hummer (or whatever it is I want to attribute to Bush.) Jun 28, 2008