consumer society definition, consumer society meaning | English dictionary




1    a person who acquires goods and services for his or her own personal needs  
   Compare       producer       6  
2    a person or thing that consumes  
3    usually pl     (Ecology)   an organism, esp. an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals  
   See also       decomposer       producer       8  

consumer durable  
      n   a manufactured product that has a relatively long useful life, such as a car or a television  
consumer goods  
      pl n   goods that satisfy personal needs rather than those required for the production of other goods or services  
   Compare       capital goods  
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about the human society
[Hum.];[US] human society
rules concerning what people are owed to or allowed of, according to ethical principles of freedom and applied in society
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