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consumption English

Meaning consumption meaning

What does consumption mean?
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consumption

Consumption is the amount of something consumed. The consumption of fuels by man is too high.

consumption

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

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Simple sentences

The consumption tax is now 5 percent in Japan.
By reducting meat consumption, we can improve the environment.
Alcohol consumption is increasing every year.
In America, the consumption of fast-food has tripled between 1977 and 1995.
My horizons are broader than your pupils after cannabis consumption!
The doctor told Tom to reduce his red meat consumption.
Their consumption of dog meat is no more barbaric than your consumption of cows and chickens.
Many of us are hostile to the consumption tax.
Japan's consumption of rice is decreasing.
Alcohol consumption is higher in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.
It seems that the origin of the mutations is in the consumption of contaminated water.

Movie subtitles

Neither stomach contents suggests consumption of a meat pie.
She'd been stricken with galloping consumption and had only held out for the space of a year.
HOW'S OUR FUEL CONSUMPTION?
The oxygen consumption's way up.
Here are the fuel consumption reports for K.G. V and Rodney, sir, as close as I can calculate them.
Fuel consumption?
Indeed, I have consumption.
It should never be forgotten that the customer. is only a mixture of impulses, and unconscious motivations. to direct towards consumption ends.
A, what is the fuel consumption of a Tiger tank?
And tired too, of this farce we perform, you and I, for public consumption.
With that kind of power consumption, they may not be able to see us.
A normal English salad not fit for human consumption, even if you remove the slugs and add a dash of the extraordinary, a bit of mayonnaise.
Who in the last hours the previous day, argued for a consumption diuretic, an insistent pressure.
Where's that. - Sir?.fuel consumption report?
Vital lag in industrial production. coal mining output can be stepped up. electric kilowatt hour consumption not up to its potential.
With that kind of power consumption they may not be able to see us.
This is a sales chart of the past fiscal year which reflects the disastrous effect of our former advertising policy in terms of per capita consumption of wickets.
You handed Captain Kirk a fuel-consumption report in the presence of witnesses, which he read and signed.
No surface consumption, no generation of energy.
But you grow some potatoes for your consumption, I suppose.
For more enjoyment and greater efficiency consumption is being standardized.
Consumption be done about it?
He's got consumption.
I'm angry! I'm angry me mother died in the mill of consumption!
Well, it was up to me to clean it up for public consumption.
Behold the same body as it exits ready for consumption by posterity.
I'm correlating it with load factor and fuel consumption.
Suppose somebody has. oh, say, consumption. that bars him from a lot of things.
On the other hand, our advertizing will convince people that it is good for them. And once being convinced, they will be improved by its consumption.
Consumption tax?
You're speaking of the increasing consumption of our material?
His blood chemistry shows an abnormal consumption of energy.
We have sufficient livestock to satisfy the greater part of our consumption.
The root cause of consumption is urge. and the result of consumption is satisfaction.
I told him without consumption there is no satisfaction.
Here's your bills, for gas and water consumption.
Sir?.fuel consumption report?
At our present rate of consumption, we'll exhaust our impulse power long before then.

News and current affairs

Unfortunately, as a result of the private-sector deleveraging and an increase in household savings, the US economy, driven by debt and consumption, slid into recession.
In the long run, America's growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption one based on Americans vaunted capacity for creativity and innovation.
Free-market thinking evolved from Anglo-Saxon theorists (many from Scotland), who migrated and colonized territories, allowing fortunate individuals to assume that there were no limits to consumption.
Consumption patterns and preferences are an integral part of such systems.
Both factors challenge us to define, in the longer term, more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
And global warming's impact would reduce energy consumption for almost all nations.
Maintaining an undervalued currency has the upside that it subsidizes the production of such goods; but it also has the downside that it taxes domestic consumption - which is why it generates a trade surplus.
Today's problems are compounded by a lack of sufficient private demand - particularly household consumption - in the advanced economies to compensate for demand losses stemming from austerity.
During the last two decades, consumption drove these countries' economic growth, reaching historically high GDP shares.
For domestic demand to act as an engine of growth, policies should shift resources from investment to consumption.
Only the emerging and developing economies of Asia could effectively contribute to lifting global demand through a coordinated effort aimed at boosting domestic consumption, which, in turn, would stimulate additional investment.
The heroin trade would not be booming if Western governments were serious about combating drug consumption.
Unemployment, and fear that it will spread, drives down wages, incomes, and consumption - and thus total demand.
In the east, China, its growth model unsustainable, could be underwater by 2013, as its investment bust continues and reforms intended to boost consumption are too little too late.
In some countries, most notably the US, a private-sector credit boom created jobs in low-skilled industries like construction, and precipitated a consumption boom as people borrowed against overvalued houses.
And exports of raw materials to China, India, Europe, and the US - a key factor in Africa's recent growth surge - may suffer simply because the global slowdown means less consumption everywhere.
These risks are already exacerbating the economic slowdown: equity markets are falling everywhere, leading to negative wealth effects on consumption and capital spending.
Only consumption is lagging.
Fourth, private consumption growth in the last few quarters does not reflect growth in real wages (which are actually falling).

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