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Consumption vs Income - What's the difference?

consumption | income |

As nouns the difference between consumption and income

is that consumption is the act of consuming something while income is money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

consumption

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of consuming something.
  • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
  • The amount consumed.
  • gross national consumption
  • (pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
  • (senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • Derived terms

    * autoconsumption, self-consumption. * conspicuous consumption.

    See also

    (Wikipedia)

    income

    English

    (wikipedia income)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise, capitalising on the work of others.
  • *, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}
  • * 2010 Dec. 4, , " Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):
  • In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income ; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (label) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
  • * Bishop Rust
  • more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
    (Shakespeare)
  • A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
  • (label) An entrance-fee.
  • (label) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
  • * Chapman
  • I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.
  • A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
  • That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
  • Anagrams

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