consumer

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

client customer patron buyer purchaser shopper user consumerist end user gourmand spectator booker herbivore devourer public
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Antonyms

chandler packman west indian draper gatherer monger
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Hypernyms

user

Hyponyms

eater prodigal client customer feeder smoker

Related terms

consumption

Phrases with the word

primary consumer consumer of a product consumer of a finished product consumer of a good ultimate consumer of a finished product consumer of a service

Anagrams

cornmuse

Examples

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. William S. Burroughs

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. Hjalmar Schacht

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. Adam Smith

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. William Stanley Jevons

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

Close letter words and terms

consumed consumedly consumeless consumer advocacy consumer articles consumer base