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Definition: Consumer Goods |
Consumer GoodsNoun1. Goods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | In political economy terms, goods which are not intended for use directly or indirectly in any manufacturing process but intended for the use of the final consumer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | Any goods produced for the express use of individuals rather than the production or manufacturing of other goods. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Consumer Goods |
| English words defined with "consumer goods": consumer durables ♦ durable goods, durables ♦ fashions, foodstuff ♦ grocery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "consumer goods": durable consumer goods ♦ hard goods, hard line merchandise, Hindustan Lever Ltd. (references) |
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Health | Incentives for manufacturers to design quieter industrial equipment and consumer goods are needed along with regulations governing the maximum emission levels of certain consumer products, such as power tools. (references) | |
Business | The variety of light industrial and consumer goods increased. (references) | |
Mass merchandising is becoming increasingly popular in the area of consumer goods. (references) | ||
Most consumer goods are imported by stocking distributors who resell to retailers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Moldova | They sell various consumer goods and equipment. (references) |
Egypt | The picture for consumer goods is likewise mixed. (references) | |
Trinidad | Imports of consumer goods and appliances have increased. (references) | |
Political Economy | PARAGUAY | Expiration dates must be printed on medical products and some consumer goods. (references) |
MOROCCO | Counterfeiting of clothing, luggage, and other consumer goods is illegal, but not uncommon. (references) | |
Mongolia | A growing trade and small entrepreneurial sector in the cities provides basic consumer goods. (references) | |
Trade | Israel | Israel levies purchase taxes on many consumer goods. (references) |
Burma | Tariffs on most other items including consumer goods are moderate. (references) | |
Jamaica | Final or consumer goods are broken down into basic and non-basic goods. (references) | |
Travel | Denmark | The price level for food and durable consumer goods is considerably higher than that of the United States, and among the highest in Western Europe. (references) |
Canada | Canadian prices for food and general consumer goods are sometimes higher than US prices, but this may be offset by a favorable US-Canadian dollar exchange rate. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | If you don't believe it in taxes, look at it in the sale of tangible consumer goods. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Greece | Emporikos Desmos imports and sells consumer goods and |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "consumer goods": durable consumer goods. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | artikuj të përdorimit të gjerë (commodities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سلع إستهلاكية, السلعة المستعملة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spotřební zboží, konzumní zboží. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konsumgoder (consumption goods, first order goods), forbrugsgoder (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | consumptiegoederen (consumption goods, first order goods), verbruiksartikelen (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kulutushyödyke (commodity, consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | biens de consommation (consumption goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verbrauchsgüter (consumption goods, first order goods), Konsumgüter (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταναλωτικά αγαθά (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogyasztási cikkek (articles of consumption, articles of food, consumer's goods, consumption goods), fogyasztási javak (consumer's goods, consumption goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | generi di consumo, beni di consumo (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 消費財 , 民需" , コンシューマ製" (concentration, concentrator, concentric, concept, concept advertisement, conception, conceptual art, concessionary chain, consensus, consent, conservatoire, console, console type, consomme, consortium, constant, constellation system, constitution, constraint, construct, constructor, consumer products, control strip, electrical outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうひざい, コンシューマせいひ" (consumer products), み"じゅひ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsumercay oodsgay bens de consumo (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) bunuri de larg consum. (various references) потребительский товар, потребительские товары (consumer commodities). (various references) roba široke potrošnje. (various references) bienes de consumo. (various references) konsumtionsvaror (consumption goods, first order goods). (various references) tüketim malları, tüketim maddeleri. (various references) h ng tiêu dùng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-m-n-o-o-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-4 letters: consumers, mongooses, mungooses, scrounged, scrounges, uncrossed. | |
-5 letters: condores, congress, consumed, consumer, consumes, corneous, cornuses, crunodes, decorous, decorums, dormouse, dourness, endosmos, enormous, godroons, goodness, guerdons, gunrooms, mongoose, mucrones, mungoose, resounds, scourged, scourges, scrooges, scrouged, scrouges, scrounge, sonorous, sounders, sunrooms, surgeons, unmoored. | |
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