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