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consumption
/kənˈsʌmpʃən/
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What does consumption mean?
noun
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The amount consumed.
- The act of consuming or destroying.
More meanings (3)
noun
- The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- (dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- (dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈsʌmpʃən/
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It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.
Sluggish economic performance over the past decade, attributable largely to declining annual rainfall, has reduced levels of per capita income and consumption.
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The very act by which the laborer produces constitutes, then, this consumption, exactly equal to his production, of which we are speaking.
This habit of making obvious costliness a canon of serviceability of course acts to enhance the aggregate cost of articles of consumption.
As a natural consequence flying machine operators favor the motor of greatest economy in gasolene consumption, provided it gives the necessary power.