Meaning & use
consumption
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The act of using up a resource, or the amount of something used, eaten, or drunk.
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The city urged residents to cut their water consumption during the drought.
Doctors recommend limiting the consumption of processed sugar.
A note on using this word
In older texts, "consumption" was also a common name for tuberculosis, since the disease seemed to consume the body.
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