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Consumptive
Consumptive meaning
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful. | Of or relating to consumption. | Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Example sentences (8)
Evapotranspiration plus water held in the plant totals to consumptive use, which is nearly identical to evapotranspiration.sfn The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use.
He was looking at how these mediums, how these technologies, open things up behind the veneer of their consumptive use as entertainment and economy and those sort of notions.
Members advocating the non-consumptive use of wildlife were outnumbered 24 to one, until the sole animal welfare protagonist resigned.
A study published in 2011 found that crop consumptive water use and irrigation could be reduced without significant detrimental effects on almond production.
Diagnosed as consumptive and given only a short time to live, he was allowed to spend his remaining days at his leisure, drawing and painting.
During the same year, bird watching, photography, and other non-consumptive uses of waterfowl contributed an additional $192.8 million to Michigan’s economy.
Other things being equal, the greater the amount of profit-income that is disbursed as personal earnings and used for consumptive purposes, the lower the savings rate and the lower the rate of accumulation is likely to be.
The "undernetters" wanted to take ircd further in an attempt to make it less bandwidth consumptive and to try to sort out the channel chaos (netsplits and takeovers) that EFnet started to suffer from.