consumer
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈsjuːmə/, /kənˈʃuːmə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kənˈsumɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kənˈsjʉːmə/
- Hyphenation: con‧su‧mer
- Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Noun
consumer (plural consumers)
- One who, or that which, consumes.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- 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.
- (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
- Antonym: producer
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
- (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
- Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
- (ecology) An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
- Antonym: producer
- Hyponyms: carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, first-order consumer, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, second-order consumer
Derived terms
- anti-consumer
- anticonsumer
- business-to-business-to-consumer
- business-to-consumer
- consoomer
- conspicuous consumer
- consumer brand
- consumer credit
- consumer good
- consumerism
- consumerist
- consumer price index
- consumer research
- consumer resistance
- consumer rights
- consumer society
- consumer surplus
- consumer unit
- consumer whore
- direct-to-consumer
- end-consumer
- end consumer
- macroconsumer
- mesoconsumer
- metaconsumer
- microconsumer
- mystery consumer
- prosumer
- secondary consumer
- smoke consumer
Related terms
Translations
that or who which consumes
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person purchasing goods
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Further reading
consumer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “consumer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- consumer in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "consumer" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 78.
- “consumer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sy.me/
Audio (file)
Conjugation
Conjugation of consumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | consumer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | consumant /kɔ̃.sy.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | consumé /kɔ̃.sy.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consumes /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consumons /kɔ̃.sy.mɔ̃/ |
consumez /kɔ̃.sy.me/ |
consument /kɔ̃.sym/ |
| imperfect | consumais /kɔ̃.sy.mɛ/ |
consumais /kɔ̃.sy.mɛ/ |
consumait /kɔ̃.sy.mɛ/ |
consumions /kɔ̃.sy.mjɔ̃/ |
consumiez /kɔ̃.sy.mje/ |
consumaient /kɔ̃.sy.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | consumai /kɔ̃.sy.me/ |
consumas /kɔ̃.sy.ma/ |
consuma /kɔ̃.sy.ma/ |
consumâmes /kɔ̃.sy.mam/ |
consumâtes /kɔ̃.sy.mat/ |
consumèrent /kɔ̃.sy.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | consumerai /kɔ̃.sym.ʁe/ |
consumeras /kɔ̃.sym.ʁa/ |
consumera /kɔ̃.sym.ʁa/ |
consumerons /kɔ̃.sym.ʁɔ̃/ |
consumerez /kɔ̃.sym.ʁe/ |
consumeront /kɔ̃.sym.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | consumerais /kɔ̃.sym.ʁɛ/ |
consumerais /kɔ̃.sym.ʁɛ/ |
consumerait /kɔ̃.sym.ʁɛ/ |
consumerions /kɔ̃.sy.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
consumeriez /kɔ̃.sy.mə.ʁje/ |
consumeraient /kɔ̃.sym.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consumes /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consumions /kɔ̃.sy.mjɔ̃/ |
consumiez /kɔ̃.sy.mje/ |
consument /kɔ̃.sym/ |
| imperfect2 | consumasse /kɔ̃.sy.mas/ |
consumasses /kɔ̃.sy.mas/ |
consumât /kɔ̃.sy.ma/ |
consumassions /kɔ̃.sy.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
consumassiez /kɔ̃.sy.ma.sje/ |
consumassent /kɔ̃.sy.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
— | consumons /kɔ̃.sy.mɔ̃/ |
consumez /kɔ̃.sy.me/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “consumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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