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Consumers are organisms of an ecological food chain which receive energy by consuming other organisms. These organisms are formally referred to as heterotrophs , which include animals , bacteria and fungi . Such organisms may consume by various means, including ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a consumer item ▪ Import controls have been lifted on hundreds of consumer items. a consumer product (= one that is bought by the public ) ▪ Demand for consumer products has increased. a consumer/spending boom (= a sudden ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "one who squanders or wastes," agent noun from consume . In economic sense, "one who uses up goods or articles" (opposite of producer ) from 1745. Consumer goods is attested from 1890. In U.S., consumer price index calculated since 1919, tracking ...

Usage examples of consumer.

Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.

If capital today is more concerned with ensuring that individuals perform their social labor as consumers, then we can see Condomology as an instance of aestheticizing the political economy.

Many of these chains were predicated on the assumption that consumers responded to the convenience of the carryout, quick-service foods, rather than just to hamburgers.

Not to mention the Consumer Manifesto, the Commensalist Manifesto, and the Cyberpunk Manifesto.

On the one hand, marketing practices and consumer consumption are prime terrain for developing postmodernist thinking: certain postmodernist theorists, for example, see perpetual shopping and the consumption of commodities and commodified images as the paradigmatic and defining activities of postmodern experience, our collective journeys through hyperreality.

A State agency may require a company which sells natural gas to local consumers and distributing companies, transporting it in pipe lines from other States, to file contracts, agreements, etc.

State may be applied to the income of a foreign pipeline corporation which is commercially domiciled there and which pipes natural gas into that State for delivery to, and sale by, a local distributing corporation to local consumers.

When it comes to explaining the presence of those drugs themselves, blame is still not placed on American consumers, but on the foreign suppliers who grow the stuff.

A few t-shirts and shorts and socks were made in the United States, but everything else demonstrated the new geography of globalism in which relatively poor people produce consumer goods for the relatively rich.

Both consumer and business-to-business markets need to pay careful attention to key issues in relating to the customer as one person to another: Honesty.

The postindustrial age required even more specialization, a larger base of workers and consumers.

Wal-Mart pretty much begins and ends with the undeniable boon of its bargain prices to consumers.

My experience incorporates launching major magazines and new product introductions, positioning both consumer and business-to-business products and working with start up companies far too numerous to mention.

Start Up Marketing I alone offer the consumer of my products or services: 1.

When an enormous international dairy, located in Denmark, wanted to launch a wide range of cheese products in the United States, we created a relationship with trade and consumer editors by making them aware of the products and the company.