2 a person who buys goods or services for their own use: --
consumer rights/needs/preferences This article examines easy ways of researching consumer preferences with regard to various product types.
average/individual, etc. consumer These changes will not affect the average consumer.
the consumer The extra costs of production will be passed on to the consumer.
3 a person, organization, country, etc., that uses something, especially fuel, energy, etc.: --
The producer's and consumer's risks for testing plan 3 are equivalent to those of the second testing plan (10% and 5%, respectively).
The consumer's risk is still at 5% but the producer's risk is 10%.
A 1% falsenegative rate is entered into the spreadsheet for this example to show the impact on the producer's and consumer's risks.
In a deeply gendered consumer market, the use of cosmetics was unambiguously coded as womanlike.
Even though launches were ultimately rather ephemeral purchases, consumers quickly turned to this new technology as a method of infiltrating the practice of science.
This is a firm-based view that suggests the locus of control over purchasing patterns rests with the firm and not the consumer.
Figure 5(d) shows the interesting case where tabled nodes exist between a consumer and its generator.
Of course adaptation to consumers' preferences took on a specific form.
