Sentence examples for are consumption from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of consuming, i.e., burning something.
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
It's emotional because [in our daily lives] we never have time to stop; we are consumption junkies.
Positive scores are consumption of a particular metabolite, and negative scores are accumulation of a particular metabolite.
"This isn't to suggest one model is better than the other, as sales are transactions which lead to consumption, whereas streams are consumption without transaction.
"It can be a flat tax or a sales tax or anything in between, but all of those are consumption taxes".
By James Surowiecki October 20, 2008 One of the peculiarities of the U.S. budget process is that we don't distinguish between "expenditures" that are actually long-term investments, often with high returns for the economy as a whole, and expenditures that are consumption in the traditional sense of the word.
This paper decomposes urban infrastructure economic benefit into four effects which are consumption effect, investment effect, government purchase effect and external demand effect for the first time and introduces an integrated approach to analyze its level taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example.
But those are consumption-oriented (demand-side) statistics.
In economic terms, they are consumption-smoothing households and capital-consuming, often reluctant entrepreneurs at the same time.
So why is consumption often so frustrating?
Makeup and new clothes were not investments; they were consumption.
