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What does consumerism mean?

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Noun
  1. A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc
  2. A materialistic attachment to possessions.
  3. An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.
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The church has slid so far into consumerism it is nearly impossible to live out your faith without paying for it.
Instead we should focus our concerns on the industries only too ready, willing and able to take advantage of tweenagers' naive consumerism.
The arrival of mass consumerism is perhaps the major watershed in European social history between the middle and end of the twentieth century.
Indeed, contemporary Jeremiahs were only too quick to seize on the corrupting consequences of consumerism.
Where is the new thinking on questions of individualism, collectivism, consumerism, choice and equity?
Although they had no satiric intent they were designed as a commentary on the emptiness of lives dominated by consumerism.

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