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# consumer

«consumer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who buys or uses goods and services** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a consumer, consumers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A consumer is a person who buys or uses goods and services. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x1)
- A fox is a secondary consumer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x2)
- Consumers want good quality at a fair price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x3)
- Every time you buy a toy, you are a consumer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x4)
- Consumer rights mean you can return broken goods. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/#x6)
- Many consumers now shop online. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Consumers are living things that get their food by eating other living things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «consumer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consumer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.