consumer society
noun [C]Definition
› ECONOMICS a society in which people often buy new goods, and that places a high value on owning things: In a consumer society, there may be no better measure of how people feel than what they buy. Warhol's pop art style was intended to make a comment on the consumer society of the 1960s.
(Definition of consumer society noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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