Antonym: production,production. Similar words: assumption, bumptious, consume, consumer, conception, sumptuous, conditions, conservation. Meaning: [kən'sʌmpʃn] n. 1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) 2. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body 3. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing 4. the act of consuming something.
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61. I always take fuel consumption into consideration when buying a car.
62. Butter sales have fallen because margarine has improved in flavor. Further, butter consumption has decreased because of links to heart disease.
63. a diagram that schematises the creation and consumption of wealth.
64. This figure approximates to a quarter of the UK's annual consumption.
65. There has been a slight increase in the consumption of meat.
66. They drew up and executed a plan to reduce fuel consumption.
67. Increased consumption of water has led to rapid depletion of groundwater reserves.
68. In this period, there were 974 outbreaks of communicable disease attributed to the consumption of raw milk.
69. The North's share of the world's energy consumption is expected to decrease from 70% to 60%.
70. Ethiopia has almost the lowest oil consumption per capita in the world.
71. Some of the food was not fit for human consumption.
72. Alcohol and tobacco consumption by young people is especially worrisome because habits formed early are likely to persist.
73. Charcoal consumption from these sources is not environmentally acceptable.
74. What is the control theory approach to alcohol consumption?
75. The new plan focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions by cutting energy consumption.
76. It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export led rather than led by domestic consumption.
77. You can make an arrangement to pay off the bill and your current consumption, by regular payments to the fuel supplier.
78. Import prices rise and since imports are a large fraction of consumption, the consumer price index rises right along with imports.
79. No water Consumption figures could be found for the washing machine in the autonomous house.
80. The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
81. The requirement that the goods must be of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption is obviously problematic.
81. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
82. It hopes to reduce consumption by half by the year 2025.
83. To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
84. Even so, a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption.
85. The relation between alcohol consumption and sickness absence will be reported elsewhere.
86. Predicting fuel consumption and the effects of energy conservation practices has had only limited success.
87. That will last nearly 250 years at current consumption and no one can see beyond that.
88. People save, or refrain from consumption, today in order to consume more tomorrow.
89. Their consumption by one individual reduces the amount available for others.
90. Fats - Saturated and Unsaturated All major dietary guidelines advocate a need to reduce our average national fat consumption.
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