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/kənˈsuːmər/ · /kənˈsjuːmə/
A person who buys and uses goods and services.
消費者
複數 consumers
核心畫面
You can picture a consumer as the person standing at the very end of the line: goods and services are made and pass along, and this is the one who finally takes them in and uses them up — the who buys the bread and eats it, pays for the power and burns it.
可以想成：消費者站在整條供應鏈的最末端，東西一路做出來、送過來，最後由他接手、買下、用掉。買了麵包就吃掉，付了電費就…更多收起
可以想成：消費者站在整條供應鏈的最末端，東西一路做出來、送過來，最後由他接手、買下、用掉。買了麵包就吃掉，付了電費就用掉——是把商品「拿來用掉」的那個人。From the word’s history
From Latin consumere 'to use up, take up completely' = com- (here intensive, 'completely') + sumere 'to take'. A consumer is literally 'one who takes something up and uses it up' — exactly the modern picture of the end user who buys and consumes goods.
來自拉丁文 consumere「用盡、完全取用」＝ com-（此處加強語氣，「徹底」）＋ sumere「拿取」。所以 consumer 字面就是「把東西拿來、徹底用掉的人」，正好對上今天的意思：買來並用掉商品的最終使用者。
etymonline.com/word/consume ; etymonline.com/word/consumer
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
consumernoun/kənˈsjuːmə/
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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 of charcoal.
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economicssciencesSomeone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
- Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
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The consumer base of a product, service or business.
- Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
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biologyecologynatural-sciencesAn organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。