consumerism
consumerism
Definition
con·sum·er·ism (-iz′əm)
noun
- the practice and policies of protecting the consumer by publicizing defective and unsafe products, misleading business practices, etc.
- the consumption of goods and services
- a theory that a continual increase in the consumption of goods is sound economically
consumerism
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- dominate: Soelle: In a language world dominated by consumerism, we can only express ourselves in the categories of having.
- consume: How we need to pray for people today so many of whom are consumed by consumerism.
Converse of object
- promote: Promotion of consumerism to local business Three Guest speaker lunches are to be arranged to promote consumerism with local business.
- reject: The Bugatti, the telephone, the female skier and the urban skyscraper include rather than reject the new consumerism.
- challenge: A film which in many respects goes against the grain and openly challenges consumerism.
- grow: Growing consumerism is the downside The picture, however, is not all rosy.
- take: Has universal consumerism taken over where religion formerly reigned?
- resist: RB: Once you resist consumerism, you're called four things, because you're erasing four different leftist categories of consumer.
Adjective modifier
- rampant: Christmas has become yet another victim of society's rampant consumerism.
- mindless: Either we find the nearly impossible, adequate response to mindless consumerism and accumulating technological power, or there is no hope.
- ethical: Ethical consumerism has now entered the transport services market via the ETA.
- western: Should we think in terms of a linear expansion of western consumerism ending in global convergence?
- Western: These are Western materialist consumerism, and its concomitant ideologies of the superiority of the new and the rejection of the old.
- green: It's more evidence of the growth in green consumerism in Britain.
Preposition: as
- way: Whole nations too can engage in industrialism and consumerism as a way of evading a deeper search for national identity.
Noun used with modifier
- mass: The unique Japanese combination of miniaturization, mass consumerism, industrial design and creativity appeals to artists and technicians alike.
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