consumer
nounEtymology
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.
- derived from -āriusbor
- derived from *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom✻
- derived from consumerbor
- derived from *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder✻
Definitions
One who, or that which, consumes.
Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
- Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
- A second estimate of gross domestic product, released Thursday, showed that consumer spending was weaker in the first three months of the year than initially reported.
The consumer base of a product, service or business.
- Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
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An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
The neighborhood
- neighborconsumption
Derived
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 · +4 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at consumer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at consumer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at consumer
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA