consumer

Noun

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...
2. 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...
   • 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,...

   Antonyms: producer

3. 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