consumption

• consumption

consumption

Noun

the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Synonyms:

• consumption
• ingestion
• intake
• uptake

Noun

involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Synonyms:

• pulmonary tuberculosis
• consumption
• phthisis
• wasting disease
• white plague

Noun

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

Synonyms:

• consumption
• economic consumption
• usance
• use
• use of goods and services

Noun

the act of consuming something

Synonyms:

• consumption
• using up
• expenditure