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consumption

/kuhn-suhmp-shuhn/US // kənˈsʌmp ʃən //UK // (kənˈsʌmpʃən) //

消费量,消费,消耗,消费品

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
    • : the amount consumed: the high consumption of gasoline.
    • : Economics. the using up of goods and services having an exchangeable value.
    • : Pathology. Older Use.tuberculosis of the lungs.progressive wasting of the body.

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Examples

  • This will put a lid on overall consumption recovery as the low-income population far outnumbers high-income ones.

  • China in recent years has made concerted efforts to focus its economy less on trade, and more on goods and services for domestic consumption.

  • A sharp increase in consumption — and a dip in savings — in China and India helped the world economy recover after 2008.

  • Narayan believes that China’s domestic consumption could pick up sooner than India’s, and that consumption could support global growth.

  • Data from Apple News’ ad-supported side suggests more consumption may be responsible.

  • A wine consumption map of the U.S. is as fallible as that wine map of Europe.

  • The highest per capita wine consumption in the world is in the Vatican.

  • But we have a long way to go before we can match the French in individual consumption.

  • In the video, Brown misspoke slightly on the number of turkeys killed each year for consumption.

  • Excessive alcohol consumption is a major public health problem in the United States.

  • To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.

  • The cost of erection and the consumption of coal are not above one-third of a Boulton and Watt's, to perform the same work.

  • But speaking broadly, consumption goods, present or future, are the end in sight of the industrial struggle.

  • Please remember that under socialism the scramble for wealth is limited; no man can own capital, but only consumption goods.

  • That was "back in the Sixties," when his lapses were as far apart as they were unrivalled in consumption, span, and pyrotechny.