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Definitions of 'consumption'  

1. (noun) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

2. (noun) pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

3. (noun) consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
"the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

4. (noun) consumption, using up, expenditure
the act of consuming something


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