pre-consumer
adjective
1Of or relating to the time before a product reaches a consumer.
2Existing before a time viewed as one in which the consumption of goods is the most important social or economic activity.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Coshocton Tribune.
- lifter
- lift his (or its) leg
- lifting tape
- lift music
- lift off
- lift (or raise) someone's spirits
- lift pump
- lift shaft
- lig
- ligament
- ligamental
- ligamentary
- ligamentous
- ligand
- ligase
- ligate
- ligation
- ligature
- liger
- Ligeti, György Sándor
- ligger
- light
- light a fire under
- light a fire under someone
- light air