consumer
Other forms: consumers
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.
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a person who uses goods or servicestypes:chewersomeone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco)drinkera person who drinks liquidsbar flya drinker who frequents barschain-smokera heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of anothercigarette smokera smoker of cigarettescigar smokera smoker of cigarsdevourersomeone who eats greedily or voraciouslydinera person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)drunksomeone who is intoxicateddunkeran eater who dips food into a liquid before eating itglutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trenchermana person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excessgobblera hasty eater who swallows large mouthfulsguesta customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.guzzlersomeone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages)lunchersomeone who is eating lunchmoderationista moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer)moutha person conceived as a consumer of foodmunchera chewer who makes a munching noiseomnivorea person who eats all kinds of foodspipe smokera smoker who uses a pipepolicyholdera person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is writtenquaffera person who drinks heartilyshoppersomeone who visits stores in search of articles to buysippera drinker who sipsreader, subscribersomeone who pays for and receives a steady publication (such as a monthly magazine) or service (such as cable TV or an app)suckera drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)takerone who accepts an offervegetarianeater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal productswarranteea customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is giventype of:usera person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
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an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutritionsynonyms: heterotrophtypes:decomposeran organism that breaks down dead animal and plant matter, thereby returning nutrients to an ecosystem
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