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Webster 1913 Edition
Consumer
Con-sum′er
(kŏn-sūm′ẽr)
, Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, consumes;
as, the
. consumer
of foodWebster 1828 Edition
Consumer
CONSUMER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
consumer
consumer
English
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 as an individual.
- 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.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Antonyms
- (economics) and (biology): producer
Translations
that or who which consumes
person purchasing goods
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See also
biology
- carnivore
- decomposer
- detritivore
- first-order consumer
- herbivore
- omnivore
- producer
- scavenger
- second-order consumer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃syme/
Verb
consumer
Conjugation
Conjugation of consumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | consumer | avoir consumé | |||||
| gerund | en consumant | en ayant consumé | |||||
| present participle | consumant /kɔ̃.sy.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | consumé /kɔ̃.sy.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | consumai /kɔ̃.sy.me/ |
consumas /kɔ̃.sy.ma/ |
consuma /kɔ̃.sy.ma/ |
consumâmes /kɔ̃.sy.mam/ |
consumâtes /kɔ̃.sy.mat/ |
consumèrent /kɔ̃.sy.mɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consumes /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
consumions /kɔ̃.sy.mjɔ̃/ |
consumiez /kɔ̃.sy.mje/ |
consument /kɔ̃.sym/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | consume /kɔ̃.sym/ |
— | consumons /kɔ̃.sy.mɔ̃/ |
consumez /kɔ̃.sy.me/ |
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