consumer
37
3.8
- noun
- /kənˈsjuːmər/
- Specialized
:
consumidor (informática)
- Each consumer has unique preferences that the software must consider when delivering personalized content.
- producer and consumer
- consumer variables
Examples
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The video game requires the consumer to interact with the interface to complete tasks.
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Did you download those consumer reports like I asked you?
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Player 3 is called "the consumer" of electricity and is based in location 3.
Academic text (1992) -
And the Depression hit African American businesses and consumers particularly hard.
Academic text (1999) -
I would now like to turn to the FTC's consumer protection mission, which is broad.
Academic text (2001) -
The promotion of competition through deregulation is intended to benefit consumers, many of whom are large companies.
Academic text (1992) -
Selecting items at the supermarket is increasingly becoming a test of consumers' morality and humanity.
Academic text (2008) -
Each of these factors may impede the ability of consumers to view necessary disclosures appearing in Internet advertising.
Academic text (1999) -
A consumer can access various apps that process their data for better organization.
Synonyms
112
3.4
A device that picks up signals, for example a radio or television
103
3.0
A computer or program on a network that asks a server for services
4
6.3
A program part that waits for events like new connections and responds
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
8
3.9
An official measure of how prices people pay for goods and services change over time
- Specialized
2
3.2
Money that a person borrows for personal or family costs and repays with interest
- Specialized
1
3.7
Study of what customers want and do to help businesses make marketing choices
- Specialized
1
3.7
A business that lends money to people who cannot get loans from banks
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word consumer comes from the Latin verb consumere, which means 'to use up', and in computing it keeps that idea. A computing consumer is a program or process that 'uses up' or reads data made by a producer, so it 'consumes' messages much like a buyer consumes goods.