consumer

名词 n.
/kənˈsjuːmə/|/kənˈʃuːmə/    /kənˈsumɚ/|/kənˈsjʉːmə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, or that which, consumes.
    — 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. Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
    — This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
  3. The consumer base of a product, service or business. broadly
    — Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
  4. An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

词形变化

consumers plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmōder.
Old French consumerbor.
Middle English consumen
English consume
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English consumer
From consume + -er.
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