CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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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