CONSUMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consumer mean? 

• CONSUMER (noun)
  The noun CONSUMER has 1 sense:

1. a person who uses goods or services

  Familiarity information: CONSUMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSUMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who uses goods or services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("consumer" is a kind of...):

user (a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consumer"):

chewer (someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco))

concert-goer; music lover (someone who attends concerts)

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))

drinker (a person who drinks liquids)

eater; feeder (someone who consumes food for nourishment)

prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

smoker; tobacco user (a person who smokes tobacco)

snuff user; snuffer (a person who uses snuff)

Derivation:

consume (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

 Context examples 

Researchers advice to consumers now is simple: BPA-free or not, "plastic products that show physical signs of damage or aging cannot be considered safe."

(Reproductive Problems Reported In Lab Mice after BPA Replacements in Plastics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It also found that the effect of promotion focus on nutritional involvement was greater among high income consumers.

(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ultraviolet exposure, diet, and chemical compounds in consumer products can cause oxidative stress.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

The researchers collected data on aerosols in the atmosphere, meteorological conditions, traffic and reasons behind the consumers’ behaviour of switching from ethanol to gasoline.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)

This finding could explain the observations that consumers of nuts do not gain excessive weight.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Millions of consumers get health information from magazines, TV or the Internet.

(Evaluating Health Information, NIH: National Library of Medicine)

Lavender oil is used primarily for its aromatic properties in parfumery, aromatherapy, skincare products, and other consumer products.

(Lavender Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

An organization who takes part in the distribution chain for a product, as it is moved from its producer to the ultimate consumer.

(Distributor, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A database and a set of APIs and tools used to create, edit, control, deploy and find common data elements (CDEs) for metadata consumers and for UML model development.

(Cancer Data Standards Repository, NCI Thesaurus)

Some consumers crave tastier tomatoes than those available at the supermarket.

(Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes, NSF)