consumer

«consumer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who buys or uses goods and services — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a consumer, consumers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A consumer is a person who buys or uses goods and services. tree →

2) In science, a consumer is a living thing that gets its energy by eating other plants or animals, not by making its own food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In social studies and money lessons consumers buy things in shops and online, and they have rights (to safe goods, to a refund for broken things). In science food chains, plants are producers and animals are consumers: primary consumers eat plants, secondary consumers eat other animals. Phrases: consumer rights, primary consumer, secondary consumer, consumer goods.

examples

• A rabbit is a primary consumer because it eats plants. tree →
• A fox is a secondary consumer. tree →
• Consumers want good quality at a fair price. tree →
• Every time you buy a toy, you are a consumer. tree →
• Consumer rights mean you can return broken goods. tree →
• In a food chain, the arrow points from the food to the consumer. tree →
• Many consumers now shop online. tree →

note

Countable: a consumer, consumers. Verb: consume (to eat or use up). In science, opposite of «producer» (a plant that makes its own food); a «decomposer» breaks down dead things. Trap: the animal that eats the plants is the primary consumer; the plant itself is the producer, not a consumer.

In the corpora

• Consumers are living things that get their food by eating other living things.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «consumer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.