Etimology
consume + -er
noun
consumer (plural consumers)
One who, or that which, consumes.
(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
(by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
(ecology) An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
Examples
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.
Antonym: producer
This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
Antonym: producer
Hyponyms: carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, first-order consumer, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, second-order consumer
Related words
related terms
consumption