consumerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kənˈsjuːmə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈsumɚ/
  • 韻: -uːmə(r)

名詞

consumer (複数形 consumers)

1. One who, or that which, consumes.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in 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 or services as an individual.

   Antonym: producer

   This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

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

   Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.

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

   Antonym: producer

   Hyponyms: carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, first-order consumer, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, second-order consumer

派生語

Further reading

• consumer on Wikipedia.
• consumer at OneLook Dictionary Search
• consumer in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "consumer" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 78.
• consumer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

アナグラム

• cornmuse, mucrones