Consumer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who, or that which, consumes.
  • n. someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
  • n. an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, consumes.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who consumes, destroys, wastes, or spends; that which consumes.
  • n. Specifically, in polit, econ., one who destroys the exchangeable value of a commodity by using it: the opposite of producer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who uses goods or services
  • Antonym
    producer   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    user   
    Variant
    end-user   
    Hyponym
    chewer    music lover    client    drinker    squanderer    juicer    concert-goer    customer    toper    profligate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    destroyer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloomer    bloomer    boomer    groomer    humor    loomer    rumor    tumor   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    customer    investor    investment    market    buyer    employee    producer    provider    developer    management