| 单词 | consumer |
| 释义 | consumer (once / 180 pages) n A consumer is someone who buys or consumes, or uses up, something. An economy could not keep functioning without consumers. Long before smorgasbords, shopping malls, or eBay, people craved pretty and tasty things. So those who spoke Latin invented the word consumere, which meant to use up, eat, or waste. Being a consumer doesn't necessarily mean you are squandering. We're all consumers when we go through the checkout line at the grocery store, for instance. WORD FAMILYconsumer: consumerism, consumers+/consume: consumable, consumed, consumer, consumes, consuming, consumption, consumptive/consumed: unconsumed/consuming: consumingly/consumption: consumptions/consumptive: consumptively, consumptives/unconsumed: unconsumedly USAGE EXAMPLESAfter this year of fake news in US politics and elsewhere, I am hopeful that consumers of news will become much more discerning. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Consumers are supposed to report and pay sales tax on online purchases, but hardly anyone does. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) If we are indeed entering a Trump-fuelled era of consumer activism, it’s bad news for companies. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) n a person who uses goods or services Hypo|Hyper chewer someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) concert-goer, music loversomeone who attends concerts client, customersomeone who pays for goods or services drinker, imbiber, juicer, topera person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) drinkera person who drinks liquids eater, feedersomeone who consumes food for nourishment prodigal, profligate, squanderera recklessly extravagant consumer smoker, tobacco usera person who smokes tobacco snuff user, snuffera person who uses snuff bar flya drinker who frequents bars ale drinker, beer drinkersomeone whose favorite drink is beer or ale buyer, emptor, purchaser, vendeea person who buys chain-smokera heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another cigarette smokera smoker of cigarettes cigar smokera smoker of cigars devourersomeone who eats greedily or voraciously dinera person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) drunksomeone who is intoxicated drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, winoa chronic drinker dunkeran eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trenchermana person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess gobblera hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls guesta customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. gulper, guzzlera drinker who swallows large amounts greedily guzzlersomeone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) lunchersomeone who is eating lunch moderationista moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) moutha person conceived as a consumer of food munchera chewer who makes a munching noise mycophage, mycophagista person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) nosher, snackersomeone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals omnivorea person who eats all kinds of foods frequenter, patrona regular customer picknicker, picnickera person who is picnicking pipe smokera smoker who uses a pipe policyholdera person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written quaffera person who drinks heartily bacchanal, bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken revellersomeone who engages in drinking bouts gorger, scoffersomeone who eats food rapidly and greedily shoppersomeone who visits stores in search of articles to buy sippera drinker who sips disburser, expender, spendersomeone who spends money to purchase goods or services scattergood, spend-all, spender, spendthriftsomeone who spends money prodigally reader, subscribersomeone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication suckera drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) takerone who accepts an offer social drinker, tipplersomeone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities vegetarianeater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products warranteea customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given carouser, wassailersomeone who enjoys riotous drinking waster, wastrelsomeone who dissipates resources self-indulgently user a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something |
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