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 More Synonyms of consumer
consumer in British English
(kənˈsjuːmə)
noun
1.
a person who acquires goods and services for his or her own personal needs
Compare producer (sense 6)
2.
a person or thing that consumes
3. (usually plural) ecology
an organism, esp an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals
See also decomposer, producer (sense 8)
consumer in American English
(kənˈsumər)
noun
a person or thing that consumes; specif., a person who buys goods or services forpersonal needs and not for resale or to use in the production of other goods for resale
see also producer
Examples of 'consumer' in a sentence
consumer
They lead to consumers and businesses paying more or getting less.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
None of this means consumer spending is about to collapse.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They suggested that higher prices due to rising inflation may have had an impact on consumer spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The assessments warned some low income or low value digital product consumers would stop consuming digital content altogether rather than purchase.
Computing (2010)
The consumer prices index hit 1.6 per cent last month.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
You write off the British consumer at your peril.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Similarly, consumers remain in good heart.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In the same period the consumer prices index of inflation rose 1 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The UK has managed to let go most of its consumer electronics.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Consumer groups also warn that some shops use Black Friday to offload old or unpopular stock.
The Sun (2016)
The consumer products giant sells scores of brands in the country.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It is doing damage to business and consumer confidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Electricity consumers could end up footing the bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Pressure on phone makers to introduce such features has come from consumers concerned about lack of security.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It warns that consumers could be misled into switching to deals that were not the cheapest.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Unemployment is still fairly high and consumer confidence remains skittish.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is not just consumer electronics that would benefit from better batteries.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
What about the weakness of consumer spending?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Some products that many consumers would consider healthy also fared poorly.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It has to be easy to understand for consumers and business.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Electricity bills for consumers would also rise because power shortages would drive up prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Is the consumer really about to make a big comeback?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Consumer experts warned that there needed to be strong safeguards to ensure that sellers were not exploited.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The economy remains sluggish and consumers are not spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This has the potential to dent consumer spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And experts warned the shoddy products are putting consumers at risk.
The Sun (2007)
It acknowledges that new technologies have opened up exciting opportunities for both business and the consumer.
Veljanovski, Dr Cento The Media in Britain Today (1990)
The sector looks like a good way of getting exposure to rising British consumer spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This book is designed to help the skin care consumer decide what she truly wants and needs in the way of skin care.
Brumberg, Elaine Take Care of Your Skin (1990)
And does this spat have any wider ramifications for British consumers?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The threat to America involves more than consumer electronics.
Chancellor, John Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America (1990)
These ads are carefully designed to influence you, the skin care consumer.
Brumberg, Elaine Take Care of Your Skin (1990)
The official measure, the consumer prices index, does not include housing costs such as mortgage interest payments or rents.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The changes in the prices of these items are used to compile the two main measures of inflation: the consumer prices index and the retail prices index.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
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 donePaul A. SamuelsonEconomics
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer ... He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be richRalph Waldo EmersonWealth
In other languages
consumer
British English: consumer /kənˈsjuːmə/ NOUN
A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services.
Consumers are ready to keep spending.
American English: consumer
Arabic: مُسْتَهْلِك
Brazilian Portuguese: consumidor
Chinese: 消费者
Croatian: potrošač
Czech: spotřebitel
Danish: forbruger
Dutch: consument
European Spanish: consumidor
Finnish: kuluttaja
French: consommateur
German: Verbraucher
Greek: καταναλωτής
Italian: consumatore
Japanese: 消費者
Korean: 소비자
Norwegian: forbruker
Polish: konsument
European Portuguese: consumidor
Romanian: consumator
Russian: потребитель
Latin American Spanish: consumidor
Swedish: konsument
Thai: ผู้บริโภค
Turkish: tüketici
Ukrainian: споживач
Vietnamese: người tiêu dùng
All related terms of 'consumer'
consumer unit
A consumer unit is a particular type of distribution board that controls and distributes electrical energy, especially in domestic premises .
post-consumer
(of a consumer item) having been discarded for disposal or recovery
consumer choice
the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
consumer credit
Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks , building societies , and shops so that they can buy things.
consumer demand
a measure of consumers ' desire for a product or service based on its availability
consumer goods
Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses . Compare → capital goods .
consumer group
an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
consumer market
the market of consumers for a particular good or service
consumer advocate
consumerist (sense 1 )
consumer behaviour
People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave . You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour .
consumer culture
The culture of a particular organization or group consists of the habits of the people in it and the way they generally behave .
consumer durable
Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
consumer products
A product is something that is produced and sold in large quantities, often as a result of a manufacturing process.
consumer sampling
a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
consumer society
You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important .
consumer spending
the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
consumer terrorism
the practice of introducing dangerous substances to foodstuffs or other consumer products, esp to extort money from the manufacturers
consumer watchdog
an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
consumer confidence
a measure of consumers ' optimism in the state of an economy as reflected in their spending behaviour
consumer electronics
computers and other electronic devices designed for private individuals as opposed to businesses
consumer protection
laws and policies designed to protect consumers against unfair trade and credit practices
consumer resistance
the unwillingness of consumers to adopt a particular product, service, or change
consumer price index
a measure of the average price of goods and services purchased by consumers , used as an index of inflation
B2C
B 2 C is the selling of goods and services by businesses to consumers using the internet . B2C is an abbreviation for 'business to consumer'.
cpi
characters per inch
FMCG
FMCGs are inexpensive products that people usually buy on a regular basis , such as supermarket foods or toiletries . FMCG is an abbreviation for 'fast-moving consumer goods'.
consumerist
Consumerist economies are ones which encourage people to consume a lot of goods.
If consumers demand more of a product then more of it will be supplied.
Synonyms
buyer
The buyer has to put down a 10% deposit.
customer
Most of our customers have very tight budgets.
user
shopper
crowds of Christmas shoppers
purchaser
The broker will get 5% if he finds a purchaser.
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]