consumer societynoun [ C ]
uk/kənˈsjuː.mə səˌsaɪ.ə.ti/us/kənˈsuː.mɚ səˌsaɪ.ə.t̬i/a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things
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Society - general words
- amenity
- civilization
- civilized
- dystopia
- facility
- freeman
- pluralism
- pluralist
- secularize
- social
- social engineering
- society
- socio-
- sociocultural
- sociolinguistic
- sociolinguistics
- sociological
- superstructure
- uncivilized
- utility
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- Organic farming was a way of protecting the local environment, but also of freeing human beings from the “rat race” of modern consumer society.