present consumption

collocation in English

meaningsofpresentandconsumption

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present
adjective
uk
/ˈprez.ənt/us
/ˈprez.ənt/
in a ...
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consumption
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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(Definition ofpresentandconsumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpresent consumption

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In other periods, the individual must balance future consumption andpresentconsumption.
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With power utility and positive consumption growth, the future marginal utility of consumption is low compared with the marginal utility ofpresentconsumption.
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On the right-hand side, it calibrates present discounted utility to make it commensurate withpresentconsumptionas the standardised unit of measurement.
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Presentconsumptionfrom the public water supply is about 175 mgd.
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The fact is that there are 100 years' supply of coal available, at thepresentconsumptionrate.
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If these quantities were consumed, thepresentconsumptionof liquid milk would be at least doubled.
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That refinery in my constituency was built when it was estimated thatpresentconsumptionof oil would be twice what it is now.
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To get this in perspective it means that we shall have twice thepresentconsumptionof the gas industry available within something like two-and-a-half years.
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I have simply distributed the £1,600,000 between the three countries on the proportion of thepresentconsumption.
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Now, instead of having 3.3 weeks' supply, it is 2.88 weeks, onpresentconsumption.
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I said that thepresentconsumptionwas 150,000 tons, leaving 850,000 tons to be sold elsewhere.
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The estimate also allows for some change in the pattern ofpresentconsumption.
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The pipeline has the potential to increase our gas supply, atpresentconsumptionlevels, by between seven and 12 years.
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The world's capacity to produce steel is about 1,000 million tonnes andpresentconsumptionis only about 700 million tonnes.
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But thepresentconsumption-led boom has no hope of being transmuted into export-led growth.
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Do they wish us to cut down to a half or a quarter of thepresentconsumptionin this country?
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Investment ultimately is, and must be, the withdrawal ofpresentconsumptionfrom present production in order to invest for the future.
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All capital investment means some denial ofpresentconsumptionin the interests of future production.
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Thepresentconsumptionof flour in all its forms requires at the current extraction rate the equivalent of six million tons of wheat yearly.
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The correct figure was not five weeks' supply but 3.3 weeks' supply onpresentconsumptionand 2.6 weeks on full consumption.
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