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consumerlike

consumerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a consumer.

Adjective

consumerlike (comparative more consumerlike, superlative most consumerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a consumer.
    • ...earnestly starts looking for an apartment, and uses her free time to spend money in typical consumerlike fashion on cheap wares for her new place.2004, Murray Pomerance, Bad: infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen
    • With the consumer approach, evaluators produce independent, consumerlike assessments where the consumer's welfare is the ultimate value.2008, Valerie Ruhe, Bruno D Zumbo, Evaluation in Distance Education and E-Learning: The Unfolding Model

Forms of consumerlike

comparativemore consumerlike
superlativemost consumerlike

Origin of consumerlike

From consumer + -like.

Questions about consumerlike

What does consumerlike mean?
Consumerlike means resembling or characteristic of a consumer.
What part of speech is consumerlike?
Consumerlike is an adjective.

Words near consumerlike in the dictionary

  1. consumerizations
  2. consumerize
  3. consumerized
  4. consumerizes
  5. consumerizing
  6. consumerlike
  7. consumers
  8. consumership
  9. consumerships
  10. consumes
  11. consumest

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