An individual who buys products or services for personal use and not for manufacture or resale.

the person or organization that uses some item of commerce or service in its own acitities, as opposed to reselling the item or including it as part of another item for resale; -- called also the end user.

an individual who purchases and uses goods or services.

or end-user - person who (buys and) uses goods or services; person whose needs are satisfied by producers.

One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or their remains.

Consumers are heterotrophic organisms within the food web of a community. In the trophic levels of the food chain, primary consumers consume producers, secondary consumers consume primary consumers, and tertiary consumers consume secondary consumers.

animal that feeds on plants (primary consumer) or on other animals (secondary consumer)

An individual or a legal entity consuming electricity and/or thermal power

means an individual who acquires or imports property or a service for the personal use or consumption of that individual (or of another individual) and not for use in a commercial activity or in the making of an exempt supply by the individual.

A private individual at whom advertisements are aimed; a buyer.

a natural person (private individual)

An end user of any product or service. A shopper or customer. The final link in the chain of product distribution: manufacturing, selling, wholesaling, retailing, consuming.

a "degraded customer

a gullet that gulps products and craps cash , in the famous formulation, and I hope this whole episode has demonstrated that we customers are much more than just a gullet

a shopper, a potential buyer

a business, that business may appoint a candidate of its choice

Somebody who has entered into a contract not in the course of their business

Predominantly businesses that deal directly with the public, e.g. shops, banks, pubs etc.

residential and business customers.

an application that uses the ADO or OLE DB specification to request functionality or data from a data provider through OLE DB interfaces. A typical ADO consumer might submit a query to a data provider and then display the results of that query.

a client application that uses or 'consumes' an OLE DB interface

a software component that is capable of getting in touch with an OLE DB provider through a set of COM interfaces

A consumer is any application or tool that calls to a data source or the interfaces of provider to access data. See provider.