English Explanatory Dictionary

consumer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who, or that which, consumes.
  2. Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
  3. The consumer base of a product, service or business.
  4. An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

Pronunciation

/kənˈsjuːmə/ /kənˈʃuːmə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-consumer.wav /kənˈsumɚ/ /kənˈsjʉːmə/

Word forms

consumer consumers

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English consumer From consume + -er.

Antonyms

producer

Related words

consumption

Derived words

anti-consumer anticonsumer business-to-business-to-consumer business-to-consumer consoomer conspicuous consumer consumer brand consumer credit consumerdom consumer good consumer-grade consumerish consumerism consumerist consumerization consumerize consumerlike consumer price index consumer research consumer resistance consumer rights consumership consumer society consumer surplus consumer unit consumer whore cyberconsumer direct-to-consumer end-consumer end consumer family and consumer science macroconsumer mesoconsumer metaconsumer microconsumer multiconsumer mystery consumer nonconsumer postconsumer preconsumer prosumer secondary consumer smoke consumer transumer

Translations

Albanian: konsumator Arabic: مُسْتَهْلِك Arabic: مُسْتَنْفِد Armenian: սպառող Azerbaijani: istehlakçı Belarusian: спажыве́ц Belarusian: спажыва́льнік Belarusian: спажыва́льніца Bengali: ভোক্তা Bulgarian: потреби́тел Bulgarian: потреби́телка Burmese: စားသုံးသူ Catalan: consumidor Chinese Mandarin: 消費者 /消费者 Czech: spotřebitel Czech: spotřebitelka Danish: forbruger Dutch: consument Dutch: verbruiker Estonian: tarbija Finnish: kuluttaja French: consommateur French: consommatrice Galician: consumidor Galician: consumidora Georgian: მომხმარებელი German: Konsument German: Konsumentin German: Verbraucher German: Verbraucherin German: Endverbraucher German: Endverbraucherin Greek: καταναλωτής Hebrew: צַרְכָן Hebrew: צרכנית Hindi: उपभोक्ता Hindi: ग्राहक Hindi: भोक्ता Hungarian: fogyasztó Italian: consumatore Italian: consumatrice Japanese: 消費者 Kazakh: тұтынушы Khmer: អ្នកប្រើប្រាស់ Korean: 소비자 Kyrgyz: керектөөчү Lao: ຜູ້ຊົມໃຊ້ Latvian: patērētājs Lithuanian: vartotojas Macedonian: потрошувач Macedonian: потрошувачка Malayalam: ഉപഭോക്താവ് Māori: kaiwhakapau Māori: kaiwhakapeto Mongolian: хэрэглэгч Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠭᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢ Norwegian Bokmål: forbruker Persian: مصرف کننده Polish: konsument Polish: konsumentka Portuguese: consumidor
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