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消費者 [ichi1,news1,nf02]
しょうひしゃ [ichi1,news1,nf02]
1. [n] {business}
▶ consumer (of a product, service, etc.)
▶ customer
▶ (end) user
▶ buyer
2. [n] {ecology}
▶ consumer (in a food chain)



History:
2. A 2025-06-07 04:08:52  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2025-06-06 15:18:40  Sombrero1
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 消費者 │ 8.307.995 │100.0% │that's a lotta hits
│ 需要家 │    49.888 │  N/A  │
╰─ーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯

Sankoku: 
①〘経〙ものを買うがわの人。
「━心理・━物価指数〔=消費者の買うおもな品目を選んで、物価の水準を測定した数字〕」
②〘生〙食物連鎖(れんさ)で、植物が生産した有機物を食べるもの。つまり、動物。〔その死骸(しがい)を分解する微生物(びせいぶつ)が、分解者〕

Genius: buyer, consumer, user
GG5, etc.
  Diff:
@@ -18 +18,10 @@
-<gloss>consumer</gloss>
+<field>&bus;</field>
+<gloss>consumer (of a product, service, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>customer</gloss>
+<gloss>(end) user</gloss>
+<gloss>buyer</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&ecol;</field>
+<gloss>consumer (in a food chain)</gloss>

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