Consumer

Examples

• When salt is sifted it is ready for packing in bags or packages suitable for shipment to the consumer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the parliamentary inquiry in 1764, the witnesses stated the price of the choice pieces of the best beef to be to the consumer 4d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is certainly-easier for the consumer to pay five shillings a-year for every hundred ounces of plate, near one per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The price of the goods rises, and the final payment of the tax falls upon the consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It has either presented the business man with money or harassed him with bungling enthusiasm in the pretended interests of the consumer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The final payment of those taxes has fallen constantly upon the consumer, and not upon the producer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The quantity of gas used by each consumer is measured by an instrument called a meter, of which there are two classes--the wet and the dry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nobody buys it but in order to sell it again; and with regard to it there is, in ordinary cases, no last purchaser or consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That bronze relics were found apparently of anterior manufacture to any made of iron, was doubtless due to the destruction of the iron by that great consumer--oxygen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The profits to manufacturers and dealers on these household necessities are very large, and the prudent consumer will take advantage of the directions here given. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But the chemicals which destroy bacteria frequently injure the consumer as well. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is as if you put all your effort into the working of a plough and forgot the farmer and the consumer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It increases as fast as the means of the consumers increase for procuring it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The power station was placed at the centre of the square; each block had sixteen consumers using fifteen lights each. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• First, of the money, by means of which all the other three are circulated and distributed to their proper consumers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By means of it, provisions, materials, and finished work, are bought and sold, and distributed to their proper consumers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The consumption is the same, but the consumers are different. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Taxes upon luxuries are finally paid by the consumers of the commodities taxed, without any retribution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Some were mere consumers of time; others were gladly welcomed, like Lord Kelvin, the greatest physicist of the last century, with whom Edison was always in friendly communication. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their interest as landlords and farmers would in this case be very deeply affected by such regulations, and their interest as consumers very little. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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