A consumer is the end user or customer of a product or service which has been acquired from a vendor (producer or distributor).
An organizational entity, such as a business or association, would tend to be referred to as a customer and not a consumer. The end users on whose behalf the product or service was acquired would be referred to as the consumers.
An individual acquiring a product or service for use by themselves or their family or friends would be a customer as well as a consumer.
Similarly, a computational entity acquiring a product or service for use my itself would be referred to as both a customer and a consumer, and a computational entity acquiring a product or service for use within a larger aggregation or computational entities would be referred to as a customer, and the computational entities which ultimately use the product or service would be referred to as the consumers.
Synonym for end user.
Singular of consumers.
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