Definition of "overconsume" []

• To consume too much. (verb)

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• "(Many also contended that we should control costs from the opposite direction, making consumers responsible for more of the cost for each service, and therefore reducing their incentive to "overconsume" health care.)"
• "Thus, the argument goes, HFCS will tend to fill us up less than table sugar, encouraging us to overconsume."
• "It is IMPOSSIBLE to overconsume an IP resource by copying it."