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Consumption vs Purchasing - What's the difference?

consumption | purchasing |

As nouns the difference between consumption and purchasing

is that consumption is the act of consuming something while purchasing is the act of making a purchase.

As a verb purchasing is

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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.

    Related terms

    * consumer

    See also

    (Wikipedia)

    purchasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a purchase.
  • * 1936 , James Arthur Fulton, Our economic nationalism: its purpose and importance (page 84)
    • As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us