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• n  the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
• n  involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
• n  (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
  the consumption of energy has increased steadily
• n  the act of consuming something

• An economist suggests that committing to a consumption tax in the future might address both the short- and long-term problems the economy faces.
• The world has serious consumption problems, but we can solve them if we choose to do so.
• Red meat consumption ranged from a low of less than an ounce a day, on average, to a high of four ounces a day, and processed meat consumption ranged from at most once a week to an .

• ingestion
• intake
• uptake
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• phthisis
• wasting disease
• white plague
• economic consumption
• usance
• use
• use of goods and services
• using up
• expenditure

News & Articles

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• Information Update: Health Canada Reminds Canadians to Manage Their Caffeine Consumption
  Health Canada is reminding Canadians about the importance of managing the consumption of caffeine, especially by children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and women who are planning to become pregnant....
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Toshiba: Novel Device Structure for Low Power Consumption MOSFETs for RF/Analog Applications
  Toshiba Corporation today announced the development of a high power gain transistor using a CMOS compatible process. The transistor efficiently reduces power consumption in high frequency RF/analog front-end application.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Energy Efficient HVAC Systems Will Surpass $33 Billion in Annual Revenue by 2020, Forecasts Navigant Research
  Energy consumption by heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems accounts for roughly 40 percent of total building energy consumption, and in turn, buildings account for 35 percent to 40 percent of total worldwide energy consumption.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in PinkNews.co.uk
  There are scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption,the Pope said.
• Elle Macpherson in ABC Online
  Macpherson has told News Limited she had "never knowingly consumed or encouraged the use or consumption of any products which contain material derived from endangered species".
• Elton John in NDTV.com
  I don't know how I kept my career going with my drug consumption but I did because I loved to work. If I hadn't worked I'd probably be dead,he added.