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anti-consumer

anti-consumer adjective: opposing the consumer.

Adjective

anti-consumer (comparative more anti-consumer, superlative most anti-consumer)

  1. Opposing the consumer.
    • ...the Commission was aware of the anticonsumer effects of market segmentation...2000, Roland Francis Stephen, Vehicle of influence: building a European car market

Noun

anti-consumer (plural anti-consumers)

  1. A person of anticonsumerist beliefs.

Forms of anti-consumer

Adjective
comparativemore anti-consumer
superlativemost anti-consumer
Noun
pluralanti-consumers

Origin of anti-consumer

From anti- + consumer.

Questions about anti-consumer

What does anti-consumer mean?
Anti-consumer means opposing the consumer.
What part of speech is anti-consumer?
Anti-consumer can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anti-consumer in the dictionary

  1. anti-communist
  2. anti-communists
  3. anti-competitive
  4. anti-conspiratorial
  5. anti-constitutional
  6. anti-consumer
  7. anti-consumers
  8. anti-contagion
  9. anti-control
  10. anti-controls
  11. anti-copyright

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