1. (noun) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Synonyms: phthisis, use, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, inhalation, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, breathing in, consumption, aspiration, economic consumption, ingestion, inlet, intake, usance, inspiration, white plague
2. (noun) pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Synonyms: phthisis, use, uptake, consumption, usance, white plague, expenditure, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, drug addiction, using up, intake, ingestion, economic consumption, use of goods and services
3. (noun) consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
Synonyms: phthisis, usage, use, custom, habit, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, ingestion, exercise, role, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, utilization, consumption, employment, economic consumption, manipulation, intake, usance, enjoyment, function, purpose, white plague, utilisation
4. (noun) consumption, using up, expenditure
the act of consuming something
Synonyms: spending, phthisis, use, expenditure, outgo, uptake, ingestion, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, consumption, economic consumption, expending, intake, outlay, usance, white plague, use of goods and services
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