consumerism

English Thesaurus

1. a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers (noun.act)

hypernym	:	campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement,
definition	:	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end (noun.act)

2. the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	economic theory,
definition	:	(economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods) (noun.cognition)