consumer

Plural: consumers

Noun

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

Examples

• "Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class."
• "This new system favours the consumer over the producer."

Antonyms

producer

Related Words

consumption