consumer

One who, or that which, consumes.

• 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

Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

• This new system favours the consumer over the producer.

The consumer base of a product, service or business.broadly

• Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.

An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.