One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
Someone who uses the R programming language.
From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
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