eng: consumption

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Meaning
means	(noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) uptake, ingestion, consumption, intake
means	(noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, white plague, wasting disease
means	(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" consumption, use of goods and services, use, usance, economic consumption
means	(noun) the act of consuming something expenditure, using up, consumption