consumption
Definition 1
Expenditure during a particular period on goods and services used in satisfaction of needs and wants.
Definition 2
Process in which the substance of a thing is completely destroyed, and/or incorporated or transformed into something else.
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consumption is in the Economics, Politics, & Society and Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subjects.
consumption appears in the definitions of the following terms:
family life cycle,
activity,
free good,
imputed income,
macroeconomics,
chemical contamination,
microbial contamination,
reorder point,
utility,
public good
and
consumption appears in these other terms: consumption tax, consumption charge, loan for consumption, conspicuous consumption, consumption rate, consumption type item, energy consumption, consumption entry, consumption expenditure, consumption function
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