user

One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.

Noun

  1. One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
    • [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long...
    • 2019, The Highway Code (United Kingdom) Road Users Requiring Extra Care The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is particularly important to be aware of children,...
  2. A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
  3. A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
  4. Clipping of username.
  5. An exploiter, an abuser (a person who exploits others, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
  6. In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim.
    • 2012, R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council, [2012] EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html As to evidence of user... As to quality of user (i.e. was use by the public "as of...

Origin

From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).

Forms

users

Synonyms

parasite

Antonyms

nonuser non-user

Hypernyms

person

Related

abuser misuser user guide user interface user manual user satisfaction user's guide user's manual

Derived

10-foot user interface character user interface drug user end-user end user end user license agreement graphical user interface healthy user bias magic user mail user agent multi-user dungeon multi-user multiuser natural user interface power user re-user road user root user single-user super-user useR user account user agent user base