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Meaning of consumption

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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