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consumer

The correct spelling is consumer.

How to pronounce consumer

noun

IPA: /kənˈsjuːmə/

Say it like: Con-sum-er

The correct spelling is consumer. One who, or that which, consumes. For example: "This new system favours the consumer over the producer."

Usage Examples

This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.

Definition

noun

  1. 1.One who, or that which, consumes.
  2. 2.Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
  3. 3.(by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
  4. 4.An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

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