consumption
(noun)
noun
1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Similar word(s): ingestion, intake, uptake
Definition categories: act, activity
2. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Similar word(s): phthisis
Definition categories: state, tuberculosis
3. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- the consumption of energy has increased steadily
Definition categories: process, demand
4. the act of consuming something
Similar word(s): expenditure
Definition categories: act, depletion
Sentences with consumption as a noun:
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- gross national consumption