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consumerism

noun as in ever-expanding consumption of goods

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It’s gift-guide and new-ski season, but it’s also the time of year when we can most feel the itch of consumerism.

The company is part of a wide, slow wave of conscious consumerism taking hold in the outdoor industry.

The rapid growth in donors and awareness underscores the fact that Giving Tuesday has become a phenomenon in its own right — an outlet for a backlash against the consumerism of the holiday shopping season.

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The Chief Rabbi was simply pointing out the potential dangers of consumerism when taken too far.

Purple Dot tackles this problem head-on by providing a new way to shop, taking on unsustainable, unrelenting consumerism, poor pricing tactics and profit-crunching sales at the same time.

There are still headwinds for these American icons of consumerism.

How do you feel about the current relationship between art and consumerism?

A healthy sense of leisure … Consumerism has brought us anxiety, [causing us to lose a] healthy culture of leisure.

There is a sense of consumerism but also, for a lack of a better word, taste—curation and arrangement.

We must make it known that we have had enough of consumerism tainted with misery and blood.

Foreign firms, which came over to ride the wave of unbridled consumerism and to make a quick buck, will go home.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to consumerism, such as: business, capitalism, commercialism, industrialism, merchandising, and trading.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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