mass consumption

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandconsumption

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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consumption
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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(Definition ofmassandconsumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The world ofmassconsumptionhe envisioned is surely the world we inhabit today.
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Perhaps, then, this is also a means whereby what is threatening in cultural forms is tamed, made palatable formassconsumption.
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The interwar period witnessed the development of mass production techniques and increasedmassconsumption.
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But at the same time the motor car was embraced by the working classes, whose spokesmen envisioned it as a guarantor of productivity, high wages andmassconsumption.
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In this context, musical collaboration is employed to disguise asymmetric power relations between musical performers and musical cultures; western musicians, for instance, help to tailor non-western musics formassconsumption.
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There is no doubt that in a world where mass production has become the dominating force, you must havemassconsumption.
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We have stepped into an age of mass production, and, with mass production, we must havemassconsumption.
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No previous 25-year period in the history of capitalism had seen full employment, sustained economic growth and highmassconsumption.
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In these days of mass production you must havemassconsumption.
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The whole problem of the modern world is how to organisemassconsumptionparallel with mass production.
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Yet, in an era of mass communication, mass production andmassconsumption, the individual finds himself immersed in the middle of masses, and he does not like it.
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The wines are red, light table wines formassconsumption.
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On the other hand, it started producing lower-cost watches that fitted properly the emergingmassconsumptionmarkets.
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The reason for thismassconsumptionof fast food is its affordability and accessibility.
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It produced glass packaging and other glass items formassconsumption.
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All necessary products from food and other industries, as well as industrial products formassconsumption, can be bought there.
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It is also related to the idea ofmassconsumptionand changes of working condition of workers over time.
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He predicted a second age of the machine andmassconsumption.
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