consoomer

Noun

consumer (plural consumers)

1. One who, or that which, consumes.
   • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
2. Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
   • This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

   Antonyms:

   producer

3. (broadly) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
   • Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
4. An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

   Antonyms:

   producer