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Definition of Consumption
Consumption
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

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.

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.
John Baldacci

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
Alfred Marshall

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig



Consumption Translations
consumption in Dutch is longtering, tering, tuberculose
consumption in French is consommation
consumption in Italian is consumo
consumption in Latin is phthisis
consumption in Spanish is consumo


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