Shopping vs Consumption - What's the difference?
shopping | consumption |
(uncountable) Searching for or buying goods or services.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (uncountable) Recently bought goods.
(countable, South America) A shopping center.
* 2013 , Karen Keller, Portuguese For Dummies (page 131)
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
As nouns the difference between shopping and consumption
is that shopping is (uncountable) searching for or buying goods or services while consumption is the act of consuming something.As a verb shopping
is .shopping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
citation, passage=Mother
- In Brazil, shoppings are more associated with the middle and upper classes.
Usage notes
In English, it is common to say do the shopping'' or ''go shopping . SeeDerived terms
* home shopping * shopping bag * shopping basket * shopping bot * shopping cart * shopping center * shopping centre * shopping list * shopping mall * shopping trolley * window shoppingAnagrams
* ----consumption
English
Noun
(-)- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- gross national consumption