Consumption

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Consumption may refer to:

Economics

• Use of final goods by a consumer until disposal
• Consumption (economics)
• Consumption function, an economic formula
• Consumption (ecology)

Sociology

• Consumption (sociology)

Other

• Consumption, an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis
• ingestion of food and drink

Noun

consumption (uncountable)

1. The act of consuming something.

   The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.

2. The amount consumed.

   gross national consumption

3. (pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
4. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.

Derived terms

• conspicuous consumption

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