underconsumption
- a word derived from consumption.
Example Sentences
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The words influencer and underconsumption don’t typically belong in the same sentence.
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2025
This year more people have been exploring underconsumption - the trend where shopping hauls and miracle must-buys are replaced with reusing beloved possessions and purchasing less.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024
Trends such as underconsumption core, loud budgeting, soft saving and the dupe economy are helping Gen Z embrace their frugal, minimalist side and be vocal and proud of their judicious spending habits.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024
With consumers both at home and abroad unable to purchase, however, the twin problems of overproduction and underconsumption ground the economy to a halt.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Yet the vulgar political economy of Herr Duehring attempts to explain the new phenomenon, not by means of the new factor of overproduction, but by means of the exceedingly old factor of underconsumption.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich
