collective consumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcollectiveandconsumption
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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk/kəˈlek.tɪv/us/kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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consumption
noun[U]
uk/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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(Definition ofcollectiveandconsumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Collectiveconsumptionof public services is invisible (as is the 'enforced consumption' of services).
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Acollectiveconsumptionunit is faced with at least six different institutional arrangements for arranging for the supply of local public goods.
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The physical attributes of goods or services with the potential forcollectiveconsumptionmay involve indivisibility or nonconvexity in production.
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Community-based collective struggles for such "collectiveconsumption" through institutional settings is what in a sense characterizes the urban social movements.
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The provision,collectiveconsumptionand enjoyment of food and alcohol imply a certain reciprocity39 and nurtures relations of trust and cuatismo (male friendship).
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Once acollectiveconsumptionunit is established, how production is organized is an entirely separate question.
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His development of the idea of urban 'collectiveconsumption' and his wider theories of urban social movement are acknowledged by these writers as 'persuasive' and 'powerful'.
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Private associations that sanction, or even expel, those who do not contribute their share of resources to provide for a collective good are alsocollectiveconsumptionunits.
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A tendency towards greater inequality, towards a relative reduction incollectiveconsumption, and an increase in conspicuous waste creates its own undoing.
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Society ticks in terms of the relative allocation of resources between personal or family consumption and social orcollectiveconsumption.
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All demand for intermediate production would be derived from the expected demand for final individual andcollectiveconsumption.
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Government final consumption expenditure is made forcollectiveconsumptionor for individual consumption in the form of social transfers in kind to households.
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Final consumption is also expected to increase by 11% overall individual consumption by 14.4% andcollectiveconsumptionby 10.4%.
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