Definition of Consumptions. Meaning of Consumptions. Synonyms of Consumptions

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Definition of Consumptions

Consumption
Consumption Con*sump"tion (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. --Burke. 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. 3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.

Meaning of Consumptions from wikipedia

- Look up consumption in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Consumption may refer to: Resource consumption Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically...
- Consumption disparity in major cities In economics, the consumption distribution or consumption inequality is an alternative to the income distribution...
- have different consumptions. In fact, one compares oneself with other people, and what has a significant impact on one's consumption is one's position...
- In economics, the consumption function describes a relationship between consumption and disposable income. The concept is believed to have been introduced...
- Human consumption may refer to: Anthropophagy (disambiguation), the consumption of humans Consumption (economics), consumption of goods by humans Consumer...
- Energy consumption is the amount of energy used. In the body, energy consumption is part of energy homeostasis. It derived from food energy. Energy consumption...
- A consumption tax is a tax levied on consumption spending on goods and services. The tax base of such a tax is the money spent on consumption. Consumption...
- Land consumption as part of human resource consumption is the conversion of land with healthy soil and intact habitats into areas for industrial agriculture...
- consumption energy consumption electric energy consumption world energy consumption natural gas consumption/gas depletion oil consumption/oil depletion...
- In sociology and in economics, the term con****uous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality...