metaconsumer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who consumes or seeks out aspects of consumerism; a consumer of the experience of shopping and advertising (as opposed to the products bought).
noun
A person, system, or organization that purchases something on behalf of a group of consumers.
noun
One who consumes (destroys) the act or possibility of consumption.
Example Sentences
- "Some of the implications of the entrenchment of the metaconsumer in the era of postmodernity have been-recently recognized in the field of consumer research by researchers who are at the forefront of major leaps in methodological and theoretical movements in this field."
- "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."
- "In the state of postmodern consumption, even producers-as-writers are transformed into metaconsumers whose response to new commodities such as the rental family is always masochistic, but is also highly creative."
- "A metaconsumer is not only a consumer of products and symbols but also an active participant in the shopping spectacle."
- "Increasingly businesses are the market targeted by managed care organizations; as purchasers of health insurance options for their employees, businesses are the new metaconsumers of health care insurance (Sacramento Bee, 1995; Marion Merrell Dow, 1995)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth₂? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English consumer English metaconsumer From meta- + consumer.