consumer

Plural

consumers

1. 1.One who, or that which, consumes.

2. 2.Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

   • This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
   • Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
   • A second estimate of gross domestic product, released Thursday, showed that consumer spending was weaker in the first three months of the year than initially reported.

3. 3.An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

4. 4.The consumer base of a product, service or business.

   • Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.

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