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CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does conspicuous consumption mean?
• CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION (noun)
The noun CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION has 1 sense:
1. buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth
Familiarity information: CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("conspicuous consumption" is a kind of...):
consumption; economic consumption; usance; use; use of goods and services ((economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing)
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