Consumption - Definition
consumption
n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
(as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake,
uptake]
2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
[syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis,
wasting disease, white plague]
3: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy
needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has
increased steadily" [syn: consumption, economic
consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services]
4: the act of consuming something [syn: consumption, using
up, expenditure]