CONSUMER Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

consumer

noun

Definition of consumer

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a person who buys goods and services Most consumers are comfortable making purchases on the Internet.

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Recent Examples of consumer Faced with a slowdown in the smartphone and car markets, Huawei's consumer business is choosing to focus on phones with homegrown chips. — Matthew Tan,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 That’s the call to action that patients will find on the site for digital health company Everlywell, which has offered at-home lab tests directly to consumers for a decade. — Katie Palmer, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026 The survey describes a wealthy, highly engaged slice of the generation, not Gen Z consumers generally. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Circana found that the median little treat costs $5, and the median price of consumers’ most expensive little treat is $10. — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for consumer

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Noun

Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
The company has been gradually increasing its use of AI across back office and customer-facing roles and has introduced an AI chatbot to its website to help customers plan their trips.

— Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of customer

Noun

But even in the consumer technology sphere, other digital surveillance devices pose similar threats to the privacy and well-being of users, especially for women.

— Sparkle Rainey Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
People will soon be able to text with their dot, which can take action on a user’s behalf using a separate machine in the cloud.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of user

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An algorithm acting for a buyer may evaluate price, timing and terms against another algorithm acting for a seller.

— Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
The buyer pays a lump sum and, of course, more than the surrender value, though naturally less than the eventual death benefit, and takes over the premiums from there.

— Rob Haynie, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of buyer

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Bank of America analyst Haas Liu said in a Monday note to clients that the deal is likely to be more about component purchases for Musk's product lines across SpaceX and Tesla .

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Uniting the case-of-the-week elements, which flow extremely smoothly from one episode to the next, is a bigger mystery involving Bo (Rob McClure), a whistleblowing client with a mind-blowing secret.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

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