consumpts

Noun

consumpt (plural consumpts)

1. (Scotland) 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 reduction of the means to expend in the home market, it is...1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe
2. (obsolete) Consumer; market.
   • If a weaver makes a thousand yards of cloth, and finds a ready and profitable sale for it, at ahigh price, he will of course continue, and others of the same profession, seing him grow rich, will take his workmen at higher wages, and increase the prices of materials, so long as they can get a...1779, Thomas Tod, Observations on American Independency - Volume 9, page 9

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