paradigm // noun [C]

a pattern for doing sth; a method, structure, or system:

the emerging paradigm for change

The company adopted a paradigm known as demand-flow technology.

The build-to-demand model is replacing yesterday's build-to-stock paradigm.

• consumer debt
• consumer demand
• consumer durables
• consumer electronics
• consumer equilibrium
• consumer finance
• consumer goods
• consumer group
• consumerism
• consumer loan
• consumer magazine
• consumer market
• consumer non-durables
• consumer panel
• consumer preference
• consumer price
• consumer price index
• consumer price inflation
• consumer promotion
• consumer protection
• consumer research
• consumer resistance
• consumers' cooperative
• consumer society
• consumer surplus