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con·sum·er

(kən-so͞o′mər)

1. One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.

2. Ecology A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.

con·sum′er·ship′ n.

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consumer

(kənˈsjuːmə)

1. (Economics) a person who acquires goods and services for his or her own personal needs. Compare producer⁶

2. a person or thing that consumes

3. (Environmental Science) (usually plural) ecology an organism, esp an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals. See also decomposer, producer⁸

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con•sum•er

(kənˈsu mər)

n.

1. a person or thing that consumes.

2. a person or organization that purchases or uses a commodity or service.

3. Ecol.an organism, usu. an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals.

[1400–50]

con•sum′er•ship`, n.

con·sum·er

(kən-so͞o′mər)

An organism that feeds on other organisms in a food chain. ♦ Herbivores that feed on green plants in a food chain are called primary consumers, and carnivores that feed on herbivores are , secondary consumers. Carnivores that feed on other carnivores are called , tertiary consumers. Compare producer.

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consumer

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

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Noun

consumer - a person who uses goods or services

chewer - someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco)

concert-goer, music lover - someone who attends concerts

customer, client - someone who pays for goods or services

imbiber, juicer, toper, drinker - a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

drinker - a person who drinks liquids

eater, feeder - someone who consumes food for nourishment

prodigal, squanderer, profligate - a recklessly extravagant consumer

smoker, tobacco user - a person who smokes tobacco

snuff user, snuffer - a person who uses snuff

user - a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something

consumer

noun buyer, customer, user, shopper, purchaser If consumers demand more of a product then more of it will be supplied.

Quotations
"The consumer, so it is said, is the king ... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done" [Paul A. Samuelson Economics]
"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer ... He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich" [Ralph Waldo Emerson Wealth]

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consumer

noun

One who consumes goods and services:

customer, user.

Translations

مُسْتَهْلِك

spotřebitel

forbruger

Verbraucher Konsument

καταναλωτής

consumidor

kuluttaja

consommateur usager

potrošač

fogyasztó

neytandi

consumatore consumatrice consumente

消費者

소비자

porabnik

konsument

ผู้บริโภค

tüketici

người tiêu dùng

消费者

consumer

[kənˈsjuːməʳ]

A. N → consumidor(a) m/f
the consumer → el consumidor

B. CPD consumer behaviour, consumer behavior (US) N → comportamiento m del consumidor
consumer choice N → libertad f del consumidor para elegir
consumer credit N → crédito m al consumidor
consumer demand N → demanda f de consumo
consumer durables NPL → bienes mpl (de consumo) duraderos
consumer goods NPL → bienes mpl de consumo
consumer price index N → índice m de precios al consumo
consumer product N → producto m al consumidor
consumer protection N → protección f del consumidor
consumer research N → estudios mpl de mercado
consumer resistance N → resistencia f por parte del consumidor
consumer rights NPL → derechos mpl del consumidor
the consumer society N → la sociedad de consumo
consumer survey N → encuesta f sobre consumo
see also product A1

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consumer

[kənˈsjuːmə^r] n (= person) [product, service] → consommateur/trice m/f; [electricity, gas] → usager/ère m/fconsumer choice n → choix m offert aux consommateursconsumer confidence n → confiance f des consommateursconsumer durables [kənˌsjuːmə^rˈdjʊərəb^əlz] npl → biens mpl de consommation durablesconsumer goods npl → biens mpl de consommationconsumer group n → association f de consommateurs

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consumer

n → Verbraucher(in) m(f), → Konsument(in) m(f) (form)

consumer

in cpds → Verbraucher-;

consumer advice centre

n → Verbraucherzentrale f

consumer credit

n → Verbraucherkredit m

consumer demand

n (→ konsumptive (spec)) → Nachfrage

consumer durables

pl → (langlebige) Gebrauchsgüter pl

consumer goods

pl → Konsumgüter pl

consumer group

n → Verbrauchergruppe f

consumer

consumer prices

pl → Verbraucherpreise f

consumer protection

n → Verbraucherschutz m

consumer research

n → Verbraucherbefragung f

consumer resistance

n → Kaufunlust f

Consumers’ Association

n (Brit) britischer Verbraucherverband

consumer society

n → Konsumgesellschaft f

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consumer

[kənˈsjuːməʳ] n → consumatore/trice; (of electricity, gas) → utente m/f

consume

(kənˈsjuːm) verb

1. to eat or drink. He consumes a huge amount of food.

2. to use. How much electricity do you consume per month?

3. to destroy, eg by fire. The entire building was consumed by fire.

conˈsumer noun

a person who eats, uses, buys things etc. The average consumer spends 12 dollars per year on toothpaste.

consumption (kənˈsampʃən) noun

1. the act of consuming. The consumption of coffee has increased.

2. an old word for tuberculosis of the lungs.

consumer goods

goods which can be used immediately to satisfy human needs, eg clothing, food, TV sets etc.

consumer

→ مُسْتَهْلِك spotřebitel forbruger Verbraucher καταναλωτής consumidor kuluttaja consommateur potrošač consumatore 消費者 소비자 consument forbruker konsument consumidor потребитель konsument ผู้บริโภค tüketici người tiêu dùng 消费者

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This long consumer, who had probably never done an honest day's-work in his life, sprung the lid of a Chinese tobacco-box and with thumb and forefinger forked out a wad like a small haycock.

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In those days the Standard Oil Company did not deliver oil to the consumer in big wagons and motor trucks as it does now, but delivered instead to retail grocers, hardware stores, and the like.

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Commerce is not turbulent, nor is the public consumer besieged by loud invitations to "buy." Bird-fanciers have sought the congenial tranquillity of the scene; and pigeons coo, and canaries twitter, in Vauxhall Walk.

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Those who live on the frivolities of mankind, or, what is the same thing, their luxuries, have two sets of victims to plunder--the consumer, and the real producer, or the operative.

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A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

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Sell directly to the consumer. Drum up your own market.

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He, the bright consumer of palaces, Broad waves he his blazing banner, Red, wide and dusky, Over the strife of the valiant: His joy is in the clashing swords and broken bucklers; He loves to lick the hissing blood as it bursts warm from the wound!

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He was a great consumer of meat, usually carrying his dinner to his work a couple of miles past my house -- for he chopped all summer -- in a tin pail; cold meats, often cold woodchucks, and coffee in a stone bottle which dangled by a string from his belt; and sometimes he offered me a drink.

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A FARMER, an Artisan, and a Labourer went to the King of their country and complained that they were compelled to support a large standing army of mere consumers, who did nothing for their keep.

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Little Jones went one day a shooting with the gamekeeper; when happening to spring a covey of partridges near the border of that manor over which Fortune, to fulfil the wise purposes of Nature, had planted one of the game consumers, the birds flew into it, and were marked (as it is called) by the two sportsmen, in some furze bushes, about two or three hundred paces beyond Mr Allworthy's dominions.

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The workers in each of these families were at once producers and consumers. They were masons, carpenters, joiners, slaters, blacksmiths, and glaziers; and there was work enough to last them for a long time, for had they not their own houses to build when they had finished those for other people?

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A great part of these duties must be paid by the inhabitants of the two other States in the capacity of consumers of what we import.