consumption

Definition

Examples

The new machines have reduced our energy consumption by twenty percent.

Word Family

Synonyms

• usagethe act of using
• depletionthe act of decreasing something markedly
• intakethe process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Collocations

• Easy cut down daily excessive dietary sugar consumption
  to reduce, trim, or divide regarding down daily excessive dietary sugar consumption
• Medium monitor commercial facility electric power energy consumption
  to monitor commercial facility electric power energy consumption, meaning to keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
• Hard tax ostentatious luxury goods conspicuous consumption heavily
  to tax ostentatious luxury goods conspicuous consumption heavily, meaning to levy a tax on
• Very Hard voracious consumption of natural resources threatening ecological collapse
  describing voracious consumption of natural resources threatening ecological collapse (excessively greedy and grasping)