Main entry: consumption, using up, expenditure
Definition: the act of consuming something
Main entry: uptake, consumption, ingestion, intake
Definition: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Main entry: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
Definition: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
Usage: the consumption of energy has increased steadily
Main entry: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, wasting disease, white plague
Definition: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body