consumer
Syllables: con·su·mer/kənˈsjuːmə/US/kənˈsumɚ/
consumer noun: one who, or that which, consumes.
Noun
consumer (plural consumers)
- 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
- 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.2023 February 23, Parija Kavilanz, “Americans have a collective $21 billion in unspent gift cards”, in CNN
- Antonyms:
- producer
- The consumer base of a product, service or business.
- Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
- An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
- Antonyms:
- producer
consumer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
consumer in Hindi
- person purchasing goods
- उपभोक्ता upbhoktā, ग्राहक grāhak, भोक्ता bhoktā
- that or who which consumes
- उपभोक्ता upbhoktā, भोक्ता bhoktā, भक्षक bhakṣak
consumer in Tamil
- person purchasing goods
- நுகர்வோர் nukarvōr
- that or who which consumes
- நுகர்வோர் nukarvōr
- type of organism
- நுகரி nukari, நுகரிகள் nukarikaḷ
consumer in Urdu
- consumer, customer
- صارف ṣārif
consumer in Bengali
- person purchasing goods
- ভোক্তা bhōkta
More languagesFewer languages
- consumer in Malayalam
- ഉപഭോക്താവ് upabhōktāvŭ
- consumer in Kannada
- ಉಪಭೋಗಿ, ಬಳಕೆದಾರ, ಬಳಸುಗ, ಬಳಕೆಗಾರ
- consumer in Gujarati
- વપરાશકાર vaprāśkār, ઉપભોક્તા upabhoktā
- consumer in Sanskrit
- अशिर aśira
- consumer in Assamese
- ভোক্তা bhükta
- consumer in Tagalog
- mananaid, konsiyumer
- consumer in Arabic
- مُسْتَهْلِك mustahlik, مُسْتَنْفِد mustanfid
- consumer in Indonesian
- pemakai, pengguna
- consumer in Persian
- مصرف کننده masraf-e konande
- consumer in Thai
- ผู้บริโภค pûu-bɔɔ-rí-pôok
- consumer in Vietnamese
- người tiêu dùng, người tiêu thụ
- consumer in Myanmar
- စားသုံးသူ ca:sum:su
Examples of consumer in a sentence
- The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.
- The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors.
- Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity.
Antonyms of consumer
Forms of consumer
| plural | consumers |
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Origin of consumer
From consume + -er.
Words formed from consumer
- 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
Phrases with consumer
Words that rhyme with consumer
Questions about consumer
- What does consumer mean?
- Consumer means one who, or that which, consumes.
- What is consumer in Hindi?
- Consumer in Hindi is उपभोक्ता (upbhoktā), ग्राहक (grāhak), भोक्ता (bhoktā). See Consumer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is consumer?
- Consumer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce consumer?
- Consumer is pronounced /kənˈsjuːmə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of consumer?
- The plural of consumer is consumers.
Words near consumer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: consumer (page history and authors); صارف (Urdu) (page history and authors); consumer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉપભોક્તા (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ভোক্তা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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