consumption
noun
[ kənˈsʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n ]
• the action of using up a resource.
• "industrialized countries should reduce their energy consumption"
Similar:
using up,
use,
utilization,
expending,
expenditure,
depletion,
exhaustion,
waste,
wasting,
squander,
squandering,
draining,
dissipation,
dissipating,
• a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
• "his mother had died of consumption"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin consumptio(n- ), from the verb consumere (see consume).
