English Online Dictionary. What means consumer? What does consumer mean?
English
Etymology
From consume + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈsjuːmə/, /kənˈʃuːmə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kənˈsumɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kənˈsjʉːmə/
- Hyphenation: con‧su‧mer
- Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Noun
consumer (plural consumers)
- One who, or that which, consumes.
- (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
- Antonym: producer
- (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.
- Antonym: producer
- Hyponyms: carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, first-order consumer, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, second-order consumer
Derived terms
Related terms
- consumption
Translations
Further reading
- consumer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “consumer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- consumer in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "consumer" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 78.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consumer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- cornmuse, mucrones
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnsūmere (“to devour, waste, use up”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sy.me/
Verb
consumer
- to consume; to use up
- (figuratively) to consume
- Synonym: consommer
Conjugation
Related terms
- consommer
Further reading
- “consumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.