CONSUMPTION
- The using up of a resource
- The eating, drinking, or ingesting of something
- An amount of something that is used up or ingested
- The purchase and use of goods and services by the public
- a progressive wasting away of the body esp from pulmonary tuberculosis [n -S]
- The reception of information or entertainment, esp. by a mass audience
- A wasting disease, esp. pulmonary tuberculosis