consumer
/kənˈsjuːmə
/noun
1A person who purchases goods and services for personal use: recession-hit consumers are being lured by cheap prices [as modifier]: consumer demand...
- It found that more than half of garages were delivering low standards of service to consumers.
- This dedicated troupe have done the consumer a huge service by hiking up standards.
- The consumer culture demands that when we are sick we have medicines to make us well.
Synonyms
purchaser, buyer, customer, shopper;
user, end-user;
client, patron;
(the consumer or consumers) the public, the market, the clientele
1.1A person or thing that eats or uses something: Scandinavians are the largest consumers of rye...
- Will they see us as greedy consumers, selfishly gobbling up the world's resources.
Rhymes
- quantise
- quantitate
- quantitation
- quantitative
- quantitative analysis
- quantitative analyst
- quantitative easing
- quantitative linguistics
- quantitatively
- quantitativist
- quantitive
- quantitively
- quantity
- quantity mark
- quantity surveying
- quantity surveyor
- quantity theorist
- quantity theory
- quantité négligeable
- quantivalence
- quantizable
- quantization
- quantize
- quantizer
- Quant, Mary