KJV Dictionary Definition: devour devour. DEVOUR, v.t. L., to eat. 1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man. We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37. In the morning, he shall devour the prey. Genesis 49. 2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.
For more wide-ranging programs, such as managersâ spot awards, peer recognition, and other incentives for exhibiting organizational values, Dittman estimates the annual spend should be between $12 and $64 per employee annually, depending on thevariety of the offerings.
1 The $27 billion in fees collected from these investments (such as payment for electricity services) recouped merely 5-11% of the investment. 2  Energy incentives ($47 billion) account for less than 2% of federal spending and tax breaks, and just one third of these ($17 billion) are for low-emissions technologies. This includes spending on energy-related infrastructure ($104 billion), energy-related security spending ($46-368 billion), and energy procured for government activities ($88 billion). 2  Less than 10% of these investments focus on reducing emissions.