consumpt
(chiefly, Scottish) The amount consumed; consumption.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(chiefly, Scottish) The amount consumed; consumption.
If the home market, which depends upon the consumpt of the many, be injured by a deficiency of the means among the many to buy and consume, and a reduction of the wages of labour by a reduction of the cost of subsistence is clearly a red…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(obsolete) Consumer; market.
The brains and the hammers are still on the Clyde, but as long as British shipowners reckon small coal consumpts far above records he must bide his time.
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