Metaconsumer

Quick meaning: Metaconsumer is a noun meaning One who actively shapes the products that they purchase.

Meaning

One who actively shapes the products that they purchase.

More Meanings

1. A person, system, or organization that purchases something on behalf of a group of consumers.
2. One who consumes (destroys) the act or possibility of consumption.
3. One who consumes or seeks out aspects of consumerism; a consumer of the experience of shopping and advertising (as opposed to the products bought).

Example Sentences

A metaconsumer is not only a consumer of products and symbols but also an active participant in the shopping spectacle.

Most of these examples assume one producer and one consumer ( or aggregate them into one metaproducer and one metaconsumer ) .

In a conventional relationship between designer and consumer, the consumer places orders; a metaconsumer works on par with a metadesigner as “co-author.”

For "medium customers", the beginnings of the conception of the metaconsumer takes place on the base of many frustrations: the time of mistrust and the loss of privileges.

Word Forms

• metaconsumers

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