consumption

Noun

• the act of consuming something

• (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
  • the consumption of energy has increased steadily
    

• involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

• the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  using up , expenditure , economic consumption , usance , use , use of goods and services , pulmonary tuberculosis , phthisis , wasting disease , white plague , ingestion , intake , uptake