Definitions for Consumer
kənˈsu mərcon·sumer

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.9 / 19 votes

1. consumernoun

   a person who uses goods or services

GCIDERate this definition:3.6 / 13 votes

1. Consumernoun

   (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.

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.9 / 8 votes

1. consumernoun

   One who, or that which, consumes.

2. consumernoun

   someone who trades money for goods as an individual.

   This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

3. consumernoun

   an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Consumernoun

   One that spends, wastes, or destroys any thing.

   Etymology: from consume.

   Money may be considered as in the hands of the consumer, or of the merchant who buys the commodity, when made to export. John Locke.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. consumer

   A consumer is an individual or group that directly uses or utilizes products, goods or services generated within the economy. These goods and services are purchased, used, and consumed to satisfy their personal needs, desires, or demands. This consumption plays a key role in driving the economic activity in a market economy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.6 / 7 votes

1. Consumernoun

   one who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food

WikidataRate this definition:3.5 / 11 votes

1. Consumer

   A consumer is a person or group of people who are the final users of products and or services generated within a social system. A consumer may be a person or group, such as a household. The concept of a consumer may vary significantly by context, although a common definition is an individual who buys products or services for personal use and not for manufacture or resale.

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:3.5 / 8 votes

1. consumer

   Person or agency that uses information or intelligence produced by either its own staff or other agencies.

Matched Categories

1. • User

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Consumer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2317

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Consumer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4258

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Consumer' in Nouns Frequency: #703

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Anagrams for Consumer »

1. mucrones

How to pronounce Consumer?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Consumer in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Consumer in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Consumer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Consumer in a Sentence

1. Jeremy Gatto:

   Trump realizes that some of the tariffs that potentially could be implemented toward the end of the year could affect the consumer, which would be bad for the U.S. economy - and obviously bad for him.

2. Andre Bakhos:

   The nearer-term picture is, consumers are enjoying lower gas prices, it's almost as if it is an alleviation of taxes, someone is getting hurt in this while the consumer is benefiting, and at some point it could come back to bite the market and the economy.

3. Chief Financial Officer Ingo Uytdehaage:

   We don't want to build a consumer proposition - that's not our mission. We want to help our merchants to grow.

4. Sam Olstein:

   We have been grappling with this challenge of how to reach the binge consumer who doesn't watch TV.

5. Carol Schleif:

   President Trump definitely doesn't want a downbeat consumer going into the election cycle.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Consumer
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Consumer
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Consumer
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Consumer
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Consumer
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Consumer
8. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Consumer