English Dictionary

consumer

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈsjuːmə/

名詞

広義

One who, or that which, consumes. / (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual. / (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.

日本語の意味

消費者：商品やサービスを購入して利用する個人または集団。 / 経済学的には、金銭を支払って商品やサービスを得る者。 / 拡張的には、特定の製品、サービス、またはビジネスにおける消費者基盤を指す。

The consumer devoured the sandwich in a single bite.

食べる人はサンドイッチを一気に平らげた。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

意味（3）

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

Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.

意味（4）

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

consumers （ plural ）