consumers

noun

1. 1

   One who, or that which, consumes.

2. 2

   Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

   “This new system favours the consumer over the producer.”

3. 3

   (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.

   “Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.”

4. 4

   An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.