| 单词 | consumer |
| 释义 | consumer (kənsjuːməʳ , US -suː- ) Word forms: consumers countable noun [oft NOUN noun] B2 A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services. ...claims that tobacco companies failed to warn consumers about the dangers of smoking. ...improving public services and consumer rights. Synonyms: buyer, customer, user, shopper 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 doneEconomics Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer ... He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be richWealth Collocations: consumer cost The consumer cost payback time shows a 4:1 improvement over turbo-diesel and a 5:1 improvement over hybrid. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2006, the consumer cost of each glucose strip ranged from about $0.35 to $1.00. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Higher tariffs mean higher consumer costs. Times, Sunday Times Due to the size of the chain of intermediaries in marketing, the distribution of commodities to consumers costs a lot. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It will have a powerful anti-inflationary effect, reducing consumer costs by as much as $8 billion each year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The economy has to become much less dependent on consumer debt. Times, Sunday Times Small wonder that we have issues with consumer debt. Times, Sunday Times Levels of consumer debt, including mortgage debt, are now at 165 per cent of household income. Times, Sunday Times We can be so weak and lenders so rapacious that without government intervention the consumer debt crisis will only get worse. Times,Sunday Times If she's right, it's no wonder credit card and consumer debt keeps creeping up. Christianity Today The bad news for the changing consumer economy? Times,Sunday Times There he observed the growing power of television as an advertising medium in the emergent consumer economy. Times, Sunday Times Labour often sounded as if it disliked the consumer economy and resented the changes that had made it possible. Times, Sunday Times It's at the heart of our consumer economy. Times,Sunday Times The two other big risers were aided by the resurgent consumer economy. Times, Sunday Times There are vacancies in consumer finance, mortgages and savings and insurance and investments. Times, Sunday Times The price of consumer finance, mortgages and credit would increase. Times, Sunday Times Car-makers will also be tested by their reliance on consumer finance. Times,Sunday Times There were no tricky decisions about which institutions counted as banks and which did not (such as the consumer finance arms of car manufacturers). Times, Sunday Times Its technology platform integrates consumer finance websites with online providers of loans, insurance and other credit products, while its software assesses more than 400,000 loan applicationsamonth. Times, Sunday Times Tech both creates and caters for consumer habits and preferences. Times, Sunday Times Innovators do not just build companies - they can change the culture and consumer habits. Times,Sunday Times Retailers, buy now, pay later tech companies, and consumer habits have moved too fast for regulators. Times,Sunday Times It comes against a backdrop of a shift in consumer habits as technology transforms the way in which people communicate. Times, Sunday Times He said that the new format would reflect changing consumer habits and awareness of environmental issues. Times,Sunday Times The company revealed plans last year to sell assets with annual sales of 500 million, representing 10 per cent of its consumer health portfolio. Times, Sunday Times It sells pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer health products. Times, Sunday Times Many companies are eager to expand their portfolio of consumer health brands. Times, Sunday Times Overall, first-half like-for-like sales in its consumer health unit rose 10 per cent. Times, Sunday Times This would transform that growing consumer health division. Times, Sunday Times Outsourcing has transformed virtually every other consumer industry. Times, Sunday Times Nowadays, we're in a consumer industry where you like something one day and forget about it the next. Times, Sunday Times This year there are 30 retailers and consumer industry companies and 26 travel and leisure firms. Times, Sunday Times But it could quickly transform consumer industries such as furniture, textiles and toys. Times, Sunday Times Our gardens have become repositories for needless, impractical and often idiotic attempts, pushed by the consumer industries, at recreating the indoors outside. Times, Sunday Times Rising petrol and computer game prices had helped send consumer inflation up last month. The Sun This marks the ninth consecutive monthly drop in consumer inflation. Times, Sunday Times The producer inflation figures come a day after consumer inflation slowed to 6.4%, edging ever closer to the central bank's 3%-6% target band. ST In the 75 years to 1945, house prices across countries rose roughly in line with consumer inflation. Times, Sunday Times The figures are a key indicator of consumer inflation. Times, Sunday Times That's portion control, product reformulation and consumer information. Times, Sunday Times Important consumer information, of course. Times, Sunday Times Omega caught the attention of technology media with impressive specifications and seemingly serious investor and consumer information, but the operating system was never demoed publicly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This significantly expands the definition to include all companies, regardless of size, that maintain, or otherwise possess, consumer information for a business purpose. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The organisation offered consumer information and advice, and pursued certain complaints which the energy suppliers have failed to resolve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The renewed consumer interest in this retro look drove the manufacturer to once again produce the iconic pink phone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Widening the band will hopefully also allow consumer interest rates to fall to single digits, providing the economy with a much-needed leg-up in the recession it has just exited. ST Instead, the new ministers might be said to represent the consumer interest rather than the providers. Times, Sunday Times But the experience demonstrated the scale of consumer interest in smarter, flatter televisions. Times, Sunday Times This slump has reversed in the past year as supplies started to dry up, coinciding with revived consumer interest in butter over margarine. Times, Sunday Times Stellar profits have been driven by huge demand for consumer lending and lower bad debts. Times, Sunday Times These non-banks account for nearly 40 per cent of all consumer lending and about half of new car finance. Times, Sunday Times We're beginning to see credit issues in all forms of consumer lending, from auto loans to credit cards and in consumer lending. Times, Sunday Times The dramatic fall in consumer lending has been attributed in part to the lockdown, which has prevented people from going out and spending. Times,Sunday Times The results were driven by a good performance from its consumer lending and its bonds trading businesses in the last three months of the year. Times,Sunday Times Consumer loan companies for many years have prospered from a discrepancy in the two laws controlling their behaviour. Times, Sunday Times However, they have new risks for motor manufacturers, which increasingly resemble banks or consumer loan companies. Times, Sunday Times When it began a quoted life, the buyer of consumer loan portfolios priced its shares at 205p apiece, only to watch them rocket 10 per cent in the aftermarket. Times, Sunday Times Average size of a peer-to-peer consumer loan. Times, Sunday Times Big banks remain conservative in marketing loan products to small borrowers and the consumer loan companies are mired in scandal and face intensifying regulation. Times, Sunday Times Consumer magazines also proved considerably more robust during the recession than expected. Times, Sunday Times The source can be advertising and envy, so don't read consumer magazines or spend your time walking round department stores. Times, Sunday Times That looks likely to be close-run, with consumer magazines valued at 700 million and radio at 400 million. Times, Sunday Times The losers will be business-to-business publications, newspapers and consumer magazines. ST Analysts have been sceptical about the appeal of online consumer magazines. Times, Sunday Times But if you want to be a world-class consumer marketing and innovation company focused on growth, that requires best-in-class products. Times, Sunday Times Today, the company works in crisis management, health care, technology, corporate affairs, consumer marketing, and more. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It specializes in crisis and issues management, consumer marketing, health care, and multicultural communications. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The following statistics have caused the reapportionment of marketing investment from consumer marketing to shopper marketing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Modern consumer marketing originated in the 1960s and 1970s as companies found it more profitable to sell relatively low-value products to masses of customers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The consumer pays more and the retailers and drinks companies earn more. Times, Sunday Times The consumer pays through higher bills. Times, Sunday Times If the price falls below it, the consumer pays the difference. Times, Sunday Times In the end the consumer pays. Times, Sunday Times In the individual market, the consumer pays the entire premium without benefit of an employer contribution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We can dismiss them with a flick of our consumer preference. Times, Sunday Times Is it a mild consumer preference against war, one that will evaporate by the next election? Globe and Mail Aesthetics -- consumer preference for shiny fruit -- has since become the main reason. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The study found that when the two drinks were tasted blind there was no difference in consumer preference between the brands. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The aggregation process preserves only two characteristics of individual consumer preference theory - continuity and homogeneity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No longer do you have to make consumer purchases based on patriotism. Times, Sunday Times In the past, which he cites, the majority of consumer purchases were home produced: crockery, cutlery, silverware and clocks, clothing, textiles and shoes. Times, Sunday Times It seems to me that all contractual transactions - especially consumer purchases like flight tickets - must be utterly transparent. The Sun The rest comes from consumer purchases. Times, Sunday Times The consumer purchases flour, eggs, and sugar and then uses some labor and time producing a cake. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The cosmetic regulation laws are enforceable for important consumer safety. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This led to an interest in consumer safety and health. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Addressing the reports of health issues, they affirmed that they take consumer safety very seriously and monitor it very carefully. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Concerns over pollution, consumer safety, and debris have restricted the sale and use of consumer fireworks in many countries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The environmental impact of the disposal of these products, as well as concerns regarding consumer safety, are continually debated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It said that weak consumer sentiment and an increased focus on price among supermarkets provided no obvious way out for the company. Times, Sunday Times Car sales are taken as the earliest and most sensitive monthly gauge of consumer sentiment in the world's second-biggest economy. Times, Sunday Times The consumer sentiment report comes from a monthly survey of 600 households about financial conditions and attitudes about the economy. Times, Sunday Times The index measures the change in consumer sentiment over time from a baseline reading of 100 in 1966. Times, Sunday Times It seems quite difficult to justify such a high multiple for a company so exposed to consumer sentiment and some still-parlous economies. Times, Sunday Times There were 84,000 complaints about dodgy used cars, making them the biggest problem handled by the nationwide consumer service. The Sun Some 44 per cent of consumer service firms said business volumes were down compared with the previous quarter, as opposed to 9 per cent who recorded an increase. Times, Sunday Times Tracker funds have been a huge consumer service, with investors unquestionably getting better value for money - and mostly better returns. Times, Sunday Times Consumer service companies such as hotels, bars, restaurants, cinemas and gyms are also beginning to feel the squeeze as consumers cut their spending. Times, Sunday Times When signing up for an app, insurance policy, or any consumer service, always read the small print; it may say that your details will be shared with a third party. Times, Sunday Times A recent consumer survey found 50 per cent of rail passengers unhappy with their journeys. Times, Sunday Times It said that a third of consumers surveyed were satisfied with their products' durability. Times, Sunday Times About 70 per cent of consumers surveyed had stuck to their targets compared with only half in 2009. Times, Sunday Times Data from the 1971 census was cross-referenced against information from consumer surveys to build up a picture of the sort of people in each area - to map potential voters. Times, Sunday Times Consumer surveys show that customers prefer locally or regionally headquartered banks and feel they are treated better by such institutions. Globe and Mail Fiery yet sweet, the beautifully balanced recipe was a favourite in consumer taste tests and has a real depth of f lavour to it. The Sun We only think that because we listen too much to whining, sleepy businesses that have failed to keep up with consumer taste. Times, Sunday Times In fact, the fall disguises changing consumer taste and has been softened by an increase in processed meats. Times, Sunday Times Marketers have been among the fastest to perceive the market's preference for ethical companies, often moving faster to take advantage of this shift in consumer taste. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These are investment vehicles that try to identify future trends in science, engineering, politics, social mores and consumer tastes and then to harness them. Times,Sunday Times Its experiment comes as it overhauls its business in response to the changing ways that consumers shop. Times, Sunday Times Average basket sizes have dropped by just over 10 in a decade as consumers shop more frequently, often using their mobile phones, for fewer items. Times, Sunday Times Part of the reason lies in structural changes in the way consumers shop. Times, Sunday Times It analyses how consumers shop in an online environment by recording the number of mouse clicks and click maps based on eye movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Anything short of the perfect information experience will be increasingly intolerable to the 'digital consumer'. Times, Sunday Times Mobile and smartphones make up 41 percent of the entire digital consumer market with sales of $10 billion expected in 2008. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today's digital consumers are far more demanding. Times, Sunday Times The price per electricity consumer will be an extra 22 pence a year. Times, Sunday Times Prices for electricity consumers were historically pushed up mainly by the rising wholesale price of gas, not renewable energy subsidies, and have recently fallen. Times, Sunday Times Prices charged to electricity consumers have been rising because of the high cost of subsidies for wind power, especially offshore wind. Times, Sunday Times Sadly gas and electricity consumers can expect these types of errors to come to light more frequently. Times, Sunday Times It suggests that electricity consumers should brace for more price hikes and says that more coal will be burnt to keep the lights on. ST The products that guzzle the most energy-cars, boilers, washing machines-are typically too expensive for an individual consumer to pay for frequent upgrades. Times, Sunday Times These startling numbers are not the consequence of irrational exuberance; they are the consequence of hundreds of thousands of individual consumer decisions. Times, Sunday Times Increased state regulation over individual consumer choices and corporate activity has been relentless. Times, Sunday Times Are you going to rely on individual consumer decisions and market dynamics, or are you going to make collective social choices through the political process? Globe and Mail Data about an individual consumer can vary from bureau to bureau. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It should protect the consumer, who has no alternative and cannot afford financial insurance. Times, Sunday Times If train companies do not make good on their responsibility to put this right, government regulators should step in to protect the consumer. Times, Sunday Times Intuitively, this would serve justice and protect the consumer. Times, Sunday Times It has three objectives: to protect the consumer, protect financial markets and promote competition. Times, Sunday Times If we need to look again at our rules to protect the consumer, we won't hesitate to do so. Times, Sunday Times The role of the savvy consumer can't be underestimated in this high-street revolution. Times, Sunday Times The savvy consumer who clued himself up, planned long term and put his hand in his pocket to buy an expensive 'green' car was officially rewarded with congestion chargeexempt status. Times, Sunday Times These disengaged, less savvy consumers are lucrative for the industry because they're often on uncompetitive tariffs. Times, Sunday Times Savvy consumers will know these are just fluff, and skip to the next channel. ST But savvy consumers can help themselves by switching to cheaper tariffs. The Sun But we have a much more sophisticated consumer base. Times, Sunday Times They are infinitely more sophisticated consumers than we were, and much more confident about their bodies. Times, Sunday Times People are increasingly sophisticated consumers who want to know about outcomes, not promises, he says. Times, Sunday Times But sales slowed as markets matured and more cosmetic companies targeted increasingly sophisticated consumers. Times, Sunday Times He said that evidence of a growing dissatisfaction with catering facilities at airports had sparked a shift to a greater mix of offerings, including concepts catering to more sophisticated consumers. Times, Sunday Times Advertisers will use that information to target consumers with advertising. Times, Sunday Times They may target consumers in the form of online competitions or deals and discounts to attain their information. Times, Sunday Times Designers must also consider buyer trends and choosing colors that will appeal to their target consumers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meanwhile, the internet offers untold and dazzling opportunities to target consumers. Times, Sunday Times Refers to the marketing trend of using their location to target consumers with promotions designed to be shared via social networks. The Sun It has argued before that rogue firms should be named and shamed to act as a deterrent and also in order to warn consumers so that they could avoid them. Times, Sunday Times Although the jury yesterday found that the switch was defective and the company had failed to warn consumers, they awarded no damages because the switch did not cause the accident. Times, Sunday Times Last week a jury concluded that the company's failure to warn consumers of a potential link between talc used for feminine hygiene purposes and ovarian cancer was wrong. Times, Sunday Times But critics warn consumers will pay more. The Sun However, such organisations also warn consumers of certain risks in using parallel-imported products. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 消费者 Japanese: 消費者 |
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