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Definition of consumerist in English: consumeristadjective kənˈsjuːmərɪstkənˈsumərəst derogatory Characterized by a preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods. a nation in the midst of a consumerist frenzy Example sentencesExamples - History not only becomes pastoral, it is replaced by the more alluring, less complicated consumerist "tourism."
- A more problematic consumerist statement is his pair of Internet projects, accessible through a computer in one of the galleries.
- The current consumerist climate lets him make money making lazy tripe.
- The facile term "lifestyle" seems to celebrate such splitting of the individual into an array of consumerist components.
- It recreates the point of view of the "enemy," of the objects of consumerist middle-class living.
- These concerns relate to a larger context of neo-colonial, globalist, consumerist realities of our time.
- Few books of poetry have any significance in the larger consumerist culture of multinational commerce.
- There are quotes from him, often obscured by the broadest contours of his myth, which question the consumerist thesis.
- The failure of the program helped pave the way for the triumph of a consumerist approach.
- Its noble gesture resides in taking on board the issue of reconciling a modern, consumerist world with an ancient one.
noun kənˈsjuːmərɪstkənˈsumərəst derogatory A person who is preoccupied with the acquisition of consumer goods. self-indulgent consumerists Example sentencesExamples - The rhetoric is often more deliverer-driven than consumerists desired but not always as windy as skeptics surmised.
- The nation as a whole debates whether the schoolgirls are media victims, conniving consumerists, or symptoms of a sick society.
- This is actually a funny take on today's consumerist.
- In several obvious ways, the way he represented his interest did appear to fit the idea that fans are consumerists.
- He derides the parents as philistine consumerists unduly concerned with their children's earning potentials.
- We're not even pagans—we're just consumerists.
- That tendency has led to accusations that the New Age movement attracts self-indulgent consumerists whose primary focus is on themselves.
- This should serve as a warning to the inveterate consumerists, who presumably also face extinction should they fail to erect legal barriers to suburban sprawl.
- I stand here as a consumerist, an executive who looks at a range of industries and consumer trends to predict what's going to happen in this industry.
- Far from attaining a better life, consumerists experience alienation and fear.
Derivatives adjective derogatory The company is back in good hands, and all is bliss and fulfillment in the consumeristic paradise of the robots. Example sentencesExamples - Many of the educators criticized his "consumeristic" approach to education, where process of learning does not differ from the process of purchasing food.
- By asking us to like this pair, he's really asking us to consider why we all take part in this consumeristic feeding frenzy.
- Legal economists are a product of our consumeristic culture.
- Lives of such beauty are becoming more rare in this consumeristic age.
Definition of consumerist in US English: consumeristadjectivekənˈsumərəstkənˈso͞omərəst derogatory Characterized by a preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods. a nation in the midst of a consumerist frenzy Example sentencesExamples - The facile term "lifestyle" seems to celebrate such splitting of the individual into an array of consumerist components.
- Its noble gesture resides in taking on board the issue of reconciling a modern, consumerist world with an ancient one.
- The current consumerist climate lets him make money making lazy tripe.
- These concerns relate to a larger context of neo-colonial, globalist, consumerist realities of our time.
- A more problematic consumerist statement is his pair of Internet projects, accessible through a computer in one of the galleries.
- History not only becomes pastoral, it is replaced by the more alluring, less complicated consumerist "tourism."
- The failure of the program helped pave the way for the triumph of a consumerist approach.
- There are quotes from him, often obscured by the broadest contours of his myth, which question the consumerist thesis.
- It recreates the point of view of the "enemy," of the objects of consumerist middle-class living.
- Few books of poetry have any significance in the larger consumerist culture of multinational commerce.
nounkənˈsumərəstkənˈso͞omərəst derogatory A person who is preoccupied with the acquisition of consumer goods. self-indulgent consumerists Example sentencesExamples - Far from attaining a better life, consumerists experience alienation and fear.
- In several obvious ways, the way he represented his interest did appear to fit the idea that fans are consumerists.
- He derides the parents as philistine consumerists unduly concerned with their children's earning potentials.
- This should serve as a warning to the inveterate consumerists, who presumably also face extinction should they fail to erect legal barriers to suburban sprawl.
- The rhetoric is often more deliverer-driven than consumerists desired but not always as windy as skeptics surmised.
- This is actually a funny take on today's consumerist.
- I stand here as a consumerist, an executive who looks at a range of industries and consumer trends to predict what's going to happen in this industry.
- We're not even pagans—we're just consumerists.
- That tendency has led to accusations that the New Age movement attracts self-indulgent consumerists whose primary focus is on themselves.
- The nation as a whole debates whether the schoolgirls are media victims, conniving consumerists, or symptoms of a sick society.
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