Consumers
[kən'sjʊmɚ]
Examples
- 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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