different between consumer vs consumption

English

Etymology

consume +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?sju?m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?sum?/
• Rhymes: -u?m?(r)

Noun

consumer (plural consumers)

1. One who, or that which, consumes.
2. (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

   Antonym: producer

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

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

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Further reading

• consumer on Wikipedia.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, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• cornmuse, mucrones

French

Etymology

Latin c?ns?mere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.sy.me/

Verb

consumer

1. to consume; to use up
2. (figuratively) to consume

   Synonym: consommer

Conjugation

Related terms

• consommer

Further reading

• “consumer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French consumpcion, from Latin consumptio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?mp.??n/

Noun

consumption (usually uncountable, plural consumptions)

1. The act of eating, drinking or using.

   The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

2. The amount consumed.

   gross national consumption

3. The act of consuming or destroying.
4. (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
6. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

Derived terms

• autoconsumption, self-consumption
• conspicuous consumption

Related terms

• consumer

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