Definitions for consumer
kənˈsu mərcon·sumer

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.9 / 19 votes

1. consumernoun

   a person who uses goods or services

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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.

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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

FreebaseRate 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.

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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

Anagrams for consumer »

1. mucrones

How to pronounce consumer?

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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. Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King:

   The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

2. Andrea Dworkin:

   Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

3. Richard Blumenthal:

   The practice of steering involves jeopardy to the consumer because of the concern about parts, safety concerns are raised by this practice of steering because often it involves the use of parts that may be salvaged or inferior or even counterfeit and that is a real urgent and imminent safety concern for the consumer who may have no idea what the origin of the parts are, who made them, or even whether they're installed properly.

4. Quentin Crisp:

   Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

5. Milton Friedman:

   Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

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