consumerlike
Resembling or characteristic of a consumer.
Adjective
- 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...
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English consumer Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English consumerlike From consumer + -like.