consumer
UK /kənˈsjuːmə/ US /kənˈsumɚ/
noun 4
Definitions
noun
1
One who, or that which, consumes.
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.
2
Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
3
The consumer base of a product, service or business.
Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
4
An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
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