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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. 

consumer societynoun [ C ]

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ECONOMICS a society in which people often buy new goods, and that places a high value on owning things:

In a consumer society, there may be no better measure of how people feel than what they buy.
Warhol's pop art style was intended to make a comment on the consumer society of the 1960s.
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