consumption : Idioms & Phrases
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conspicuous consumption
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noun buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth
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Consumption of the bowels
(Med.) , inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
Webster 1913
consumption weed
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noun a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree; Baccharis halimifolia.
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economic consumption
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noun (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
usance; use of goods and services; use; consumption.
- the consumption of energy has increased steadily
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fuel consumption rate
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noun the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned
mileage; gasoline mileage; gas mileage.