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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121. In addition, government policies need to be believable; banning cigarette advertising would almost certainly cut consumption.
122. Sometimes I felt a mindless, uncontrollable rage, a consumption that ran through my chest to my hands.
123. What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park?
124. Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years.
125. Surgery has reshaped him into a commercial product for mass consumption.
126. I understand the definition of a bar is somewhere used principally for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
127. The poisonous snakes invite a certain deference, and the rattlesnake is even canned occasionally for human consumption.
128. Rosalind Lloyd, Acton, London Over the past 50 years there has been a vast increase in consumption of carbonated drinks.
129. Most human infections are associated with exposure to aquatic environments or to recent consumption of seafood.
130. There is no convincing evidence that advertising influences total consumption or has an impact on levels of alcohol abuse.
131. The emergence of stratified societies culminating in states increased conspicuous consumption of precious substances.
132. The current consumption of the stage will be fixed by the load resistance to which the collector is connected.
133. This is the product of saving from current consumption and companion investment.
134. But the official said the quota had been determined on the basis of current banana consumption.
135. In fact this is an empirical issue - are taxes paid out of private savings or current consumption?
136. They reported a 60 % higher risk linked to maternal alcohol consumption.
137. World cotton consumption was a record 86m bales, and the ratio of stocks to consumption was at an all-time low.
138. First and foremost this involved a whole battery of controls over production and consumption.
139. They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population.
140. Contemporary Marxist urban sociology places much less emphasis on the supposed necessity for the state to be engaged in collective consumption.
141. In an economic context,(http://Sentencedict.com) the difference between the short term and the long term is the distinction between consumption and investment.
142. Wells was on the brink of death by consumption when his early work appeared.
143. Far from it, what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately.
144. But the distinction between personal and collective consumption remains fairly clear.
145. Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years.
146. An increasing number of medical experts now agree that moderate consumption of alcohol is beneficial to health.
147. Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one. 4.
148. Doing so directs their attention to their drinking and reminds them that they are trying to moderate their consumption.
149. Since alcohol consumption may have varied with time, efforts were made to obtain estimates based on patient recall and chart review.
150. But one can only take just so much wretched excess and conspicuous consumption.
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