Definition of
Consumer
- (noun, person) a person who uses goods or services
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Alternate forms of Consumer
Derivations: consume
Hyponyms: chewer, client, concert-goer, customer, drinker, eater, feeder, imbiber, juicer, music lover, prodigal, profligate, smoker, snuff user, snuffer, squanderer, tobacco user, toper
Hypernyms: user
Origin of the word Consumer
- 1530s, "one who squanders or wastes," agent noun from consume. In economic sense, "one who uses up goods or articles" (opposite of producer) from 1745. Consumer goods is attested from 1890. In U.S., consumer price index calculated since 1919, tracking "changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services" [Bureau o… more
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Words that sound like Consumer
canis minor, cine-camera, commissionaire, commissioner, common canary, common shiner, concessionaire, concessioner, congener, consigner, consignor
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