consumption

IPA: kʌnsˈʌmpʃʌn

The act of eating, drinking or using.
The amount consumed.
The act of consuming or destroying.
(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
(euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

Examples of "consumption" in Sentences

The average mobile phone data consumption is therefore worth approx.
Cutting or limiting soda consumption is a good step towards improving health and fitness.
Fisher vigorously opposed using the term consumption which he equated with destructive acts.
Double, treble if you will, the present consumption of France, and _you will still find that a very small portion of her soil will suffice for this consumption_.
Some of the rise in consumption is due to the insurgents 'use of improvised explosive devices, which account for about 30 percent of all American combat deaths since the occupation began.
Lima, Peru, on the other hand, has its raw sewage flowing directly into the Pacific Ocean, along with other run-off, and the dead-zone there has become so large as to have cost effects on the local fishing industry (percentage of dietary protein consumption is falling etc.).
Now, in the first place, our analysis of saving and the confinement of the term consumption to direct embodiments of utility and convenience forbid us to acknowledge that the action of the United States or the analogy of the improving landowner is a case of over-consumption at all.