{
  "id": "consumer.economic",
  "term": "consumer",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "consumer.economic",
  "domain": "consumer",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who buys a product",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "products.goods",
      "buy.economic"
    ],
    "interaction": "People engage in buying, where they acquire goods by exchanging value, thereby forming the economic role of consumer.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "acquisition through exchange",
      "economic role tied to consumption",
      "demand-side market participation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, 45 million Americans bought gasoline weekly, averaging 11 gallons per person.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A patient purchases insulin at a CVS pharmacy in Chicago to manage type 1 diabetes.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope was bought by NASA from Northrop Grumman for $10 billion.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "consumer",
    "consumers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing 'buy.economic' as a constitutive component to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consumer.economic"
}