consumption : Idioms & Phrases


conspicuous consumption

  • 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.
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consumption weed

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned
    mileage; gasoline mileage; gas mileage.
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