consumer

CEFRB1

/kənˈsjuːmə/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A person who buys or uses goods and services.
02
noun
Extra detail
Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

The consumer base of a product, service or business.
One who, or that which, consumes.
An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

In context

Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
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.

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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
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
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.
2024 May 30, Bryan Mena and Nathaniel Meyersohn, “The American shopping spree is losing steam”, in CNN

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From consume + -er.