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Consumption vs. Consumerism

Consumption and Consumerism Definitions

Consumption

The act or process of consuming.

Consumerism

The movement seeking to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and advertising, product guarantees, and improved safety standards.

Consumption

The state of being consumed.

Consumerism

The theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is economically beneficial.

Consumption

An amount consumed.

Consumerism

Attachment to materialistic values or possessions
Deplored the rampant consumerism of contemporary society.
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Consumption

(Economics) The using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.

Consumerism

A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc

Consumption

A progressive wasting of body tissue.

Consumerism

A materialistic attachment to possessions.

Consumption

Pulmonary tuberculosis. No longer in scientific use.

Consumerism

An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.
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Consumption

The act of eating, drinking or using.
The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

Consumerism

The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial

Consumption

The amount consumed.
Gross national consumption

Consumerism

A movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers

Consumption

The act of consuming or destroying.
The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.

Consumption

(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
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Consumption

Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

Consumption

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.

Consumption

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

Consumption

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.

Consumption

The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Consumption

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Consumption

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing;
The consumption of energy has increased steadily

Consumption

The act of consuming something

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