consumers
- 1Plural of consumer.
Rising fuel costs have left many consumers cutting back on travel.
The company surveyed consumers about their favorite product features.
Note
An ordinary -s plural, and it carries every meaning of the singular: people spending money as individuals, and, in ecology, organisms that feed on other organisms. The possessive puts the apostrophe after the s (consumers' choices). Before another noun, English usually keeps the singular instead (consumer spending, consumer goods), so the plural mostly stands on its own as a subject or object.
consumers is a form of consumer
consumer, noun: A person who buys goods or services for their own use rather than to resell them, or such buyers considered as a group. Full entry
- Forms
- consumerconsumers plural
- Spelling
- consumer → consumers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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