Definitions for consumption

Definitions for (noun) consumption

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


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