consumption

Meanings

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

Synonyms

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