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   consumption

   /kənˈsʌm(p)ʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action of using up a resource: "industrialized countries should reduce their energy consumption" Similar using upuseutilizationexpendingexpendituredepletionexhaustionwastewastingsquandersquanderingdrainingdissipationdissipating
   • ▪ the action of eating or drinking something: "liquor is sold for consumption off the premises" Similar eatingdevouringingestionswallowinggobbling (up)drinkingimbibingformal:manducation
   • ▪ an amount of something which is used up or ingested: "a daily consumption of 15 cigarettes"
   • ▪ the purchase of goods and services by the public: "industry faced a serious challenge in trying to stimulate consumption"
   • ▪ the reception of information or entertainment by a mass audience: "his confidential speech was not meant for public consumption"
   • 2. a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis: dated "his mother had died of consumption" Similar tuberculosispulmonary tuberculosisTBwasting diseaseemaciationarchaic:phthisis

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin consumptio(n-), from the verb consumere (see consume).

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