noun Usage: often attributive Date: 15th century one that consumes: as, one that utilizes economic goods, an organism requiring complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter, ~ship noun
CONSUMER
Meaning of CONSUMER in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012