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noun

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1. One who, or that which, consumes.

2. Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

   Example: This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

   Antonyms:producer

3. (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.

   Example: Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.

4. An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

   Antonyms:producer