different between consumer vs downmarket

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

Derived terms

Translations

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

down- +? market

Adjective

downmarket (comparative more downmarket, superlative most downmarket)

1. Designed for low-income consumers.
2. Of, or relating to the less prestigious sector of the market.

Adverb

downmarket (comparative more downmarket, superlative most downmarket)

1. Towards the less prestigious sector of the market.

Antonyms

• upmarket

Coordinate terms

• midmarket
• upmarket

Verb

downmarket (third-person singular simple present downmarkets, present participle downmarketing, simple past and past participle downmarketed)

1. To make or become downmarket.
   • 2011, Ricardo Gil Soeiro, Sofia Tavares, Rethinking the Humanities: Paths and Challenges (page 37)

     If there has been a genuine dissemination of a certain degree of readership, of artistic interest and, very notably, of musical awareness and response, there has also been a 'downmarketing', a vulgarization of culture […]

   • 2000, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism (page 147)

     As Rob Plant explained, there is a “downmarketing” process when tourists experience problems with their initial accommodation plans and settle for the next level: for example, from one-star hotel down to backpacker hostel.