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# consumer

noun (a consumer, consumers)

«consumer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A consumer is a person who buys or uses goods and services. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#m1)
2. In science, a consumer is a living thing that gets its energy by eating other plants or animals, not by making its own food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#m2)

### In the lessons

In social studies and money lessons consumers buy things in shops and online, and they have rights (to safe goods, to a refund for broken things). In science food chains, plants are producers and animals are consumers: primary consumers eat plants, secondary consumers eat other animals. Phrases: consumer rights, primary consumer, secondary consumer, consumer goods.

### Examples

- A rabbit is a primary consumer because it eats plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x1)
- A fox is a secondary consumer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x2)
- Consumers want good quality at a fair price. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x3)
- Every time you buy a toy, you are a consumer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x4)
- Consumer rights mean you can return broken goods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x5)
- In a food chain, the arrow points from the food to the consumer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x6)
- Many consumers now shop online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a consumer, consumers. Verb: consume (to eat or use up). In science, opposite of «producer» (a plant that makes its own food); a «decomposer» breaks down dead things. Trap: the animal that eats the plants is the primary consumer; the plant itself is the producer, not a consumer.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «consumer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«consumer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/consumer.html) on Mova free.