1 old-fashioned for tuberculosis (= a serious disease of the lungs)
2 an amount of something that is used, or the process of using something, esp. so that there is less of it:
Consumption of electricity is always higher during the summer months because of air-conditioning.
3 the act of using, eating, or drinking something, or the amount that is used, etc.:
fuel/energy, etc. consumption Water transport costs less than road transport, cuts congestion, and reduces energy consumption.
increase/reduce the consumption of sth a program designed to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables by low-income families
As a nation, our consumption of junk food is horrifying.
4 the process of buying and using goods, or the amount that is bought and used:
In this period, there were 974 outbreaks of communicable disease attributed to the consumption of raw milk.
The new exhaust system, it is claimed, will lower fuel consumption.
She said that industrialized countries should reduce their gluttonous consumption of oil.
If this k s equals zero, then the optimal consumptions also will converge to zero.
The higher value of 2 implies that y1 y2 increases to 0.17, the mean consumptions by type-1 agents fall and by type-2 agents increase.
Thus, the extent to which consumptions are not perfectly correlated with aggregate income provides one measure of the departure of the incomplete- from the complete-markets solutions for this economy.
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