| 释义 |
consumerist, n. and a. orig. U.S.|kənˈsjuːmərɪst|
[f. consumer + -ist.]
A. n. One who is involved in the protection of consumers' interests; an advocate of consumerism.
1965Printers' Ink 10 Sept. 51 (heading) Why consumerists think advertising is a waste. 1969Business Week 6 Sept. 104/2 Satisfying the consumerists isn't all headache by any means. 1972Times 20 June 19/5 Ralph Nader and his consumerists appear to have scored a minor victory. 1979Personal Computer World Nov. 45/1 Ian, a consumerist by nature and by training, instantly wrote off to MPs and civil servants. 1985Cincinnati Enquirer 18 Oct. 22/3 The U.S. Court of Appeals..struck a blow..that could presage the end of one of the old consumerist's neatest schemes — the ‘Public Interest Research Groups’.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by consumerism or the interests of a consumer (sense 2 c); advocating the protection of consumers' interests.
1969Business Week 6 Sept. 94/3 Anyone in the business community who expects the Republicans to capture the Senate next year and overturn the consumerist establishment should reconsider. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 1-g/3 Adopt a consumerist outlook, says Mrs. Koch. 1977New Yorker 16 May 92/1 This new condition of life—‘consumerist’, materialistic, possessions-orientated, in important respects cut off from the custom and discipline of the past. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Nov. 781/2 In a world of cities, in a consumerist culture, it would be a disaster if we had such a world-wide movement. 1983Listener 14 Apr. 43/1 Do you think that television creates stereotypes and is consumerist? 1986New Socialist Sept. 31/3 Instead of an insignificant consumerist complaint, the politics of childbirth are a challenge to patriarchal assumptions about how the individual is to be viewed by the medical professional.
Also consumeˈristic a., characterized by consumerism (see consumerism 2).
1968Harvard Business Rev. July–Aug. 52/1 The strictly legal approach to the requirements of a ‘consumeristic’ society is sterile and self-defeating. 1974Black World Dec. 21/2 Whatever we may say about the next phase in our struggle, a necessary part of this phase is to discard the consumeristic values. 1981Guardian Weekly 13 Dec. 2/4 Malcontents were largely lured by the consumeristic promises of Voice of America. |
