Meaning & Definition of Consumption in English
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Consumption
/kənsəmpʃən/
noun
1. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
synonym:
- consumption,
- ingestion,
- intake,
- uptake
2. Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
synonym:
- pulmonary tuberculosis,
- consumption,
- phthisis,
- wasting disease,
- white plague
3. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- "The consumption of energy has increased steadily"
synonym:
- consumption,
- economic consumption,
- usance,
- use,
- use of goods and services
4. The act of consuming something
synonym:
- consumption,
- using up,
- expenditure
Examples of using
In America, the consumption of fast-food has tripled between 100 and 100.
Japan's consumption of rice is decreasing.
Many of us are hostile to the consumption tax.