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consumption Definition

con·sump·tion (kən sump′s̸hən)

noun

    1. a consuming or being consumed
    2. Econ. the using up of goods or services, either by consumers or in the production of other goods
    3. the amount consumed
    1. a wasting away of the body
    2. a disease causing this; esp., formerly, tuberculosis of the lungs

Etymology: ME consumpcioun < OFr consomption < L consumptio < consumptus, pp. of consumere

consumption Synonyms

consumption

n.

  1. The act of consuming

    using, eating, using up, decay, burning, expenditure, exhaustion, depletion, dissipation, dispersion, misuse, destruction, devastation, diminution, loss, damage, wear and tear, ruin, desolation; see also destruction 1, eating, waste 1.

    Antonyms saving, conservation*, preservation.

  2. Tuberculosis

    phthisis, pulmonary consumption, lung disease; see disease, tuberculosis.

consumption Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • alcohol: Moderate drinking Moderate consumption of alcohol can reduce the risk of heart disease in people over the age of 40.
  • beverage: Alcohol intolerance ( facial flushing or skin irritation after consumption of an alcoholic beverage ) was common.
  • foodstuff: Doses can increase accordingly through the consumption of such foodstuffs.
  • fruit: Intake of vitamin C was higher than the same period in 1997, mainly due to an increase in consumption of fresh fruit.
  • meat: But most human consumption of meat and meat products involves a cooking process which would not give any deactivation at all.

Converse of object

  • reduce: For example, careful repair an reuse of wooden pallets reduced consumption from 5000 to 2000 pallets per year.
  • minimize: The high quality design which this site deserves should include ambitious strategies to minimize resource consumption.

Adjective modifier

  • excessive: Dietary changes that may be helpful Excessive caffeine consumption has been associated with arrhythmia in human studies.
  • conspicuous: High culture is for them a form of conspicuous consumption.
  • supervised: There are plans to develop services for: supervised consumption of prescribed medicines needle exchange services advice to care homes minor ailment schemes.
  • human: Burning buried sunshine: human consumption of ancient solar energy.
  • sustainable: Driving forces of and barriers to sustainable consumption ( international workshop ).
  • reduced: This reflects reduced energy consumption by the Environment Business.

Preposition: per

  • capita: Notes to the Editor 1. The average water consumption per capita in Scotland is 140 liters per person per day.

Noun used with modifier

  • alcohol: The purpose of the course is to teach you about the effects of alcohol consumption.
  • fuel: Fuel consumption is amazing, 4 hour flights become a true reality.
  • energy: Second, we can reduce inputs of carbon dioxide by reducing wasteful energy consumption.
  • capita: Indicator 1: Water Consumption The average household per capita consumption of water in Hertfordshire for 1997/98 was 170 liters per head per day.
  • oxygen: Moreover, there is a rise in metabolic rate and oxygen consumption.
  • electricity: Owing to the high electricity consumption per customer in Texas, overall average consumption rose by 56 % .
consumption Quotes

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendencyamong landlords and persons of property tobuild,toimproveand beautify theirgrounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

—Malthus,Thomas Robert

'Tisjust likea summerbirdcageinagarden; thebirdsthat are without despair toget in, and thebirdsthat are within despair, and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.

—Webster,John

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

—Illich, Ivan

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

—Smith, Adam

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

—Veblen,Thorstein

   Assume a particular state of development in the productive facilities of man and you will get a particular form of commerce and consumption. Assume particular stages of development in production, commerce and consumption and you will have a corresponding social constitution, a corresponding organisation of the family, of orders or of classes, in a word, a corresponding civil society. Assume a particular civil societyand you will get particular political conditions which are only the official expression of civil society.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the†disease.

—[great soul]

We take it as a fundamental psychological rule of any modern community that, when its real income is increased, it will not increase its consumption by an 466 equal absolute amount.

—Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron

Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

—Illich, Ivan