consumption
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Noun (4)
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)Synonyms: ingestionintakeuptakeType of bodily process, body processKinds eating, drinking, sucking, swallow
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the bodySynonyms: pulmonary tuberculosisphthisiswasting diseasewhite plagueType of tuberculosis, TB
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing“the consumption of energy has increased steadily”Synonyms: economic consumptionusanceuseuse of goods and servicesType of demandKinds conspicuous consumption, material intensity
- the act of consuming somethingSynonyms: using upexpenditureType of depletionKinds burnup
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Translations
Noun the act of consuming something
- Spanish
- consumo
- French
- consommation
- German
- Verbrauch
- Italian
- consumo
- Portuguese
- consumo
- Turkish
- tüketim
- Russian
- потребле́ние potreblénije
- Arabic
- اِسْتِهْلَاك istihlāk
- Chinese
- 消费 xiāofèi
- Japanese
- 消費 shōhi
16 more languages
- Dutch
- verbruik
- Polish
- konsumpcja
- Swedish
- konsumtion
- Greek
- κατανάλωση katanálosi
- Korean
- 소비 sobi
- Hungarian
- fogyasztás
- Portuguese (PT)
- consumo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 消費 xiāofèi
- Catalan
- consum
- Czech
- spotřeba
- Finnish
- kulutus
- Hebrew
- צריכה tzrikha
- Norwegian
- forbruk
- Romanian
- consum
- Scottish Gaelic
- caitheamh
- Serbo-Croatian
- potrošnja
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.— Edmund Burke
2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. Medicine A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; — called also pulmonary consumption.
Consumption of the bowels Medicine, inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
Synonyms: Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54