economic consumption

1. 1.

   (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

   “the consumption of energy has increased steadily”

   Synonymsconsumptionusanceuseuse of goods and services

   Broaderdemand

   Narrowerconspicuous consumption

   economics

Questions about economic consumption

What does economic consumption mean?

economic consumption means "(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing".

What is another word for economic consumption?

Close synonyms include consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is economic consumption a common word?

economic 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.