buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.
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Use of goods and services
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
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(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics, Microeconomics.the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics, Microeconomics.the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, General economics, Microeconomics.a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception.the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.(economics) the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are protected against it (as by insurance); "insurance companie…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Audiences and reception, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics, Microeconomics.a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception.(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods)
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics, Microeconomics.(economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics, Microeconomics.
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In macroeconomics, the total demand for final goods and services in the economy at a given time and price level.; "The decline in Japa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.A branch of economics which focuses on the conditions that exist in and choices constrained by the legal framework of a political cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.; "they wanted to repeal all the legislation that impose…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.increased secretion of urine; if not due to increased liquid intake or to the action of a diuretic drug it can be a symptom of diabete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumpt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.the sustained, concerted actions of policy makers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specifi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to sat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful actio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: economics, utilization, economic, goods, satisfy.
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