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A consumer is someone who buys or consumes, or uses up, something. An economy could not keep functioning without consumers.

Long before smorgasbords, shopping malls, or eBay, people craved pretty and tasty things. So those who spoke Latin invented the word consumere, which meant to use up, eat, or waste. Being a consumer doesn't necessarily mean you are squandering. We're all consumers when we go through the checkout line at the grocery store, for instance.

DEFINITIONS OF: consumer

n a person who uses goods or services

Types:: show 52 types...; hide 52 types...; 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; bar fly
a drinker who frequents bars; ale drinker, beer drinker
someone whose favorite drink is beer or ale; buyer, emptor, purchaser, vendee
a person who buys; chain-smoker
a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another; cigarette smoker
a smoker of cigarettes; cigar smoker
a smoker of cigars; devourer
someone who eats greedily or voraciously; diner
a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant); drunk
someone who is intoxicated; drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino
a chronic drinker; dunker
an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman
a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess; gobbler
a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls; guest
a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.; gulper, guzzler
a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily; guzzler
someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages); luncher
someone who is eating lunch; moderationist
a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer); mouth
a person conceived as a consumer of food; muncher
a chewer who makes a munching noise; mycophage, mycophagist
a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms); nosher, snacker
someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals; omnivore
a person who eats all kinds of foods; frequenter, patron
a regular customer; picknicker, picnicker
a person who is picnicking; pipe smoker
a smoker who uses a pipe; policyholder
a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written; quaffer
a person who drinks heartily; bacchanal, bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller
someone who engages in drinking bouts; gorger, scoffer
someone who eats food rapidly and greedily; shopper
someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy; sipper
a drinker who sips; disburser, expender, spender
someone who spends money to purchase goods or services; scattergood, spend-all, spender, spendthrift
someone who spends money prodigally; reader, subscriber
someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication; sucker
a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw); taker
one who accepts an offer; social drinker, tippler
someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities; vegetarian
eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products; warrantee
a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given; carouser, wassailer
someone who enjoys riotous drinking; waster, wastrel
someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently; john, trick, whoremaster, whoremonger
a prostitute's customer

Type of:: user
a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something

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