Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of being consumed.
  • adjective Capable of being depleted or worn out by use.
  • noun A consumable good or service.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being consumed, dissipated, or destroyed; destructible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That is consumed or depleted upon use.
  • adjective That may be eaten.
  • noun A material or product that is produced for consumption.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective may be used up

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Examples

  • Video games and movies are technologically costly to put on the ‘net in consumable form.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Inside the World of Software Piracy: 2005

  • Amid massive U.S. job losses, business bankruptcies and other misery, H-P's so-called consumable sales plunged 7.2% in the fiscal first quarter, one reason H-P missed Wall Street's revenue estimates by $3 billion, or 10%.

    Latest Economic Signal: H-P Toner Error 2009

  • For those types of spending that can be described as consumable services or transfers, the U.S. experience has been, and continues to be, that immigrants pay for themselves.

    The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper 2010

  • The fundamental explanation is that food, beverage, household products and cosmetics companies manufacture and market brand name consumable products, most of which are considered essential to daily life -- food, drink, toothpaste, deodorants, toilet paper, etc.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • I've been told by futures brokers that in their opinion an inclusion of all commodity markets, aka consumable goods being taxed is not likely.

    TradingMarkets 2009

  • I've been told by futures brokers that in their opinion an inclusion of all commodity markets, aka consumable goods being taxed is not likely.

    TradingMarkets 2009

  • The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • Goodbye to all that, though: In a contemporary industrial society, instead, the alternation of standards, the dissolution of tradition, social mobility, the fact that models and principles are 'consumable' — everything can be summed up under the sign of a continuous load of information which proceeds by way of massive jolts, implying a continual reassessment of sensibilities, adaptation of psychological assumptions, and requalification of intelligence.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Goodbye to all that, though: In a contemporary industrial society, instead, the alternation of standards, the dissolution of tradition, social mobility, the fact that models and principles are 'consumable' — everything can be summed up under the sign of a continuous load of information which proceeds by way of massive jolts, implying a continual reassessment of sensibilities, adaptation of psychological assumptions, and requalification of intelligence.

    The Long Goodbye Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • My kids love creating things and these gifts are "consumable", meaning they don't linger for years in the toy box.

    Plastic Elimination Campaign: Plastic Toy Gift Substitutes? regina doman 2007

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