Word: 'consumer' • Extended Annotations

consumer

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore of consumer

early 15^th century, "one who squanders or wastes", noun from consume

1745, in economics: "one who uses up goods or articles, one who destroys the exchangeable value of a commodity by using it" (opposite of producer)

consumer noun

one that utilizes economic goods
an organism requiring complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense