consumption
n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
(as by eating) [syn: {ingestion}, {intake}, {uptake}]
2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
[syn: {pulmonary tuberculosis}, {phthisis}, {wasting
disease}, {white plague}]
3: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy
needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has
increased steadily" [syn: {economic consumption}, {usance},
{use}, {use of goods and services}]
4: the act of consuming something [syn: {using up}, {expenditure}]