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plural consumers
One who, or that which, consumes. quotations examples
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual. examples
(by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business. examples
(ecology) An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.