consumer

In a sentence

Six example sentences with consumer, each labelled with its topic.

• When a consumer switches to a cheaper brand, the change shows up in the price index months later.

  Economics

• The statute lets any consumer return a defective appliance within a year, whatever the store's own policy says.

  Law

• The team built for developers first and only later discovered the ordinary consumer would pay twice as much.

  Startups

• The average consumer spends eight seconds in front of a shelf, so the packaging must explain the product at a glance.

  Business

• Studies of the consumer show that a price ending in nine feels smaller than a round figure, even to people who know the trick.

  Psychology

• A consumer who repairs a jacket instead of replacing it keeps roughly ten kilograms of waste out of the landfill.

  Environment

Found in these word lists

Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
• Science Vocabulary List

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