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Definition of Overconsuming
1. overconsume [v] - See also: overconsume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overconsuming
Literary usage of Overconsuming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"The overconsuming, underperforming state faces a gigantic challenge in recapturing
the confidence of its population. Regional conflicts, especially ..."
2. Industrial Depressions: Their Causes Analysed and Classified with a by George Huntington Hull (1911)
"... asserted that the one and only cause of the existing economic disturbance
was "overspending, overconsuming, destroying more wealth than is reproduced, ..."
3. Capital, the State, and Labour: A Global Perspective by Juliet Schor, Jong-Il You (1995)
"... ecologically-sound industries would be favoured by overconsuming upper classes
attached to neo-Taylorism, thus increasing the price of consumption goods ..."
4. Food Composition Data: A User's Perspective by William M. Rand (1987)
"... correct balance of vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibre, without overconsuming
salt or calories, especially calories from fat, sugar, and alcohol. ..."
5. Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression by Theodore Elijah Burton (1902)
"The cause is simpler and deeper—overspending, overconsuming, destroying more
wealth than is reproduced, and its necessary consequence, poverty; ..."
6. Reinventing Energy: Making the Right Choices by Sally B. Gentille (1996)
"... order to stop overconsuming natural resources and avert environmental catastrophe.
They propose drastically reducing—if not eliminating—auto usage, ..."
7. Human Work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904)
"The overconsuming rich do mischief first in withholding from the social circulation
an undue amount of social products, as a mere miser—social congestion; ..."
8. Human Work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904)
"The overconsuming rich do mischief first in withholding from the social circulation
an undue amount of social products, as a mere miser—social congestion; ..."
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