consumers (noun)
1Consumers' Association — Conˈsumers Associˌation , Conˈsumers ˌUnion noun COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS an organization that does research into the safety and effectiveness of products, defends the interests of the people who buy them etc: • The Consumers Association has called …
2consumers' cooperative — UK US (UK also consumers co operative) noun [C] ► CONSUMER COOPERATIVE(Cf. ↑consumer cooperative) …
3Consumers Association — /kən sju:məz əsəυsiˌeiʃ(ə)n/ noun an independent organisation which protects consumers and represents their interests, and reports on the quality of products and services in its regular magazine. Abbr CA …
4consumer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, heavy, large ▪ We are the biggest consumers of tropical hardwoods after Japan. ▪ average, ordinary ▪ …
5shopping — noun 1 activity of shopping ADJECTIVE ▪ late night, morning, weekend ▪ back to school (AmE), Christmas, holiday (esp. AmE), last minute, sales (BrE) …
6nuisance tax — noun a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer • Syn: ↑sales tax • Hypernyms: ↑excise, ↑excise tax * * * noun : an excise tax levied on a wide range of miscellaneous commodities and borne mostly by the… …
7privacy seal — noun An online branded trust mark or seal of approval logo which is used by third party site verification entities, (i.e. Truste, BBB, Guardian e Commerce, etc.) to help protect online consumers by identifying Web sites that have been verified… …
8plug nickel — noun A nearly worthless amount, referring to a nickel (US five cent coin) with a hole in it where a plug has been removed. Others estimate that each consumers data is virtually worthless to the consumer; Most of [consumers] information, on an… …
9consumer — noun if you re a satisfied consumer, we ve done our job they provide what consumers ask for Syn: purchaser, buyer, customer, shopper; user, end user; client, patron; (the consumer or consumers) the public, the market …
10world — noun 1 the earth/its people ADJECTIVE ▪ known ▪ a medieval map of the known world ▪ entire, whole VERB + WORLD ▪ create …
