consumer
English
Etymology
consume + -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈsjuːmə/, /kənˈʃuːmə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈsumɚ/
Audio (RP) (file) - 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.
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- (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
- anticonsumer
- anti-consumer
- business-to-consumer
- consoomer
- conspicuous consumer
- 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
- prosumer
- secondary consumer
- smoke consumer
Translations
that or who which consumes
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person purchasing goods
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type of organism
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Further reading
consumer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - consumer at 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
Anagrams
- cornmuse, mucrones
French
Etymology
Latin cōnsūmere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sy.me/
Audio (file)
Verb
consumer
- to consume; to use up
- (figuratively) to consume
- Synonym: consommer
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
- consommer
Further reading
- “consumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.