em-, emp-, empt- (sump-, -sum-)

1. The protection of the rights and interests of consumers, especially with regard to price, quality, and safety.
2. An attitude that values the acquisition of material goods.
3. In economy, the belief that the buying and selling of large quantities of consumer good is beneficial to an economy or a sign of economic strength.

So intense as to take up all of a person's attention, time, and/or energy.

The quality of being consumable.

Any object whose use renders it consumed, worn out, or decayed.

1. The action or fact of consuming or destroying; destruction.
2. The dissipation of moisture by evaporation.
3. Wasting of the body by disease; a wasting disease; now applied specifically to pulmonary consumption or phthisis.
4. Wasteful expenditure, waste.
5. The using up of material, the use of anything as food, or for the support of any process.
6. The destructive employment or utilization of the products of industry.

1. To show or to illustrate by example.
2. To furnish or to serve as an example of: "His plays exemplify the comedy of seriousness."
3. In law, to transcribe or to copy; to make an attested copy of (a document) under a seal.

For the sake of example.

Meaning, "for instance" or "for example"; only when giving an example to illustrate a point. Always precede this Latin abbreviation with a comma or a semicolon. It is used correctly to introduce an example, incorrectly to mean "that is" which is id est = i.e.

"I have the laboratory equipment, e.g., [not i.e.] beakers, thermometers, and test tubes; that we need." Do not end a list that starts with e.g. with etc. In other words, make sure all of the "examples" are listed.