conspicuous consumption

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   buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth

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Questions about conspicuous consumption

What does conspicuous consumption mean?

conspicuous consumption means "buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth".

Is conspicuous consumption a common word?

conspicuous consumption is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.