consumer

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːmə(r)

Noun

consumer (plural consumers)

1. One who, or that which, consumes.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     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.

2. (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.

   This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

3. (biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

Derived terms

• anticonsumer
• consumerist
• consumerism

Antonyms

• (economics) and (biology): producer

Translations

person purchasing goods

• Arabic: مستهلك (ar) (mustahlik), مستنفد (ar) (mustanfid) m
• Bulgarian: потребител (bg) (potrebítel) m 
• Catalan: consumidor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消費者 (cmn), 消费者 (cmn) (xiāofèizhě)

• Czech: spotřebitel (cs) m
• Dutch: consument (nl) m, verbruiker (nl) m
• Finnish: kuluttaja (fi)
• French: consommateur (fr)
• German: Konsument (de) m, Verbraucher (de) m
• Hebrew: צרכן (he) (tzarchan) m, צרכנית (he) (tzarchanyt) f
• Hungarian: fogyasztó (hu)
• Italian: consumatore (it) m, consumatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 消費者 (ja) (しょうひしゃ, shōhisha)

• Korean: 소비자 (ko) (sobija) (消費者 (ko))
• Macedonian: потрошувач (mk) (potróšuvač) m
• Persian: مصرف کننده (fa) (masraf-e konande)
• Portuguese: consumidor (pt) m
• Russian: потребитель (ru) (potrebítelʹ) m , потребительница (ru) (potrebítelʹnica) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: caitheadair (gd) m, fear-caitheamh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потрошач (sh) m

  Roman: potrošač (sh) m

• Spanish: consumidor (es) m
• Swedish: konsument (sv) c
• Turkish: tüketici (tr)
• Ukrainian: споживач (uk) (spožyváč) m 
• Vietnamese: người tiêu dùng (vi), người tiêu thụ (vi)

See also

biology

• carnivore
• decomposer
• detritivore
• first-order consumer
• herbivore
• omnivore
• producer
• scavenger
• second-order consumer

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /kɔ̃syme/

Verb

consumer

1. to consume; to use up
2. (figuratively) to consume

Conjugation

   Conjugation of consumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		consumer			avoir consumé
gerund		en consumant			en ayant consumé
present participle		consumant
past participle		consumé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	consume	consumes	consume	consumons	consumez	consument
	imperfect	consumais	consumais	consumait	consumions	consumiez	consumaient
	past historic1	consumai	consumas	consuma	consumâmes	consumâtes	consumèrent
	future	consumerai	consumeras	consumera	consumerons	consumerez	consumeront
	conditional	consumerais	consumerais	consumerait	consumerions	consumeriez	consumeraient
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	consumes	consume	consumions	consumiez	consument
	imperfect1	consumasse	consumasses	consumât	consumassions	consumassiez	consumassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	consume	—	consumons	consumez	—
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