different between consumer vs unsell

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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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

un- +? sell

Verb

unsell (third-person singular simple present unsells, present participle unselling, simple past and past participle unsold)

1. (transitive) To cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
   • 1983, Thomas C. Kinnear, Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Dynamics of marketing principles: a reader

     At the same time, every effort to unsell something may also be viewed as an effort to sell something else. Those who attempt to unsell cigarette smoking are attempting to sell health...

Anagrams

• sullen