Goods

Definition: Goods

Goods

Noun

1. Articles of commerce.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "goods" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Business

Economics

Literature

Mining

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Goods

Booty

Noun: booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag, pickings; spolia opima, prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

Deception

Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house.

Mart

Tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store; lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer.

Merchandise

Noun: merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity; stock in trade; (store); cargo; (contents).

Participation

Noun: participation; cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation.

Preservation

Prophylaxis; preserver, preservative, additive; antibiotics, antifungals, biocide; hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning; ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods.

Property

Personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage.

Texture

Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.

Thief

Swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Crosswords: Goods

Ed Furillo, I sell sporting goods. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

His father's in piece goods, his mother works for a cosmetics firm (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

Money can be exchanged for goods and services (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Show off the goods. How's that for a typical mom response (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

If we wanna make ferns invisible or communicate with shrimp, I've got the goods right here (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

This is in thought of those broads who got the goods (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

If you got the goods they'll come and buy it just to stay in the clique (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Canada: White Goods (1963)

Delivering the Nation's Goods (1957)

Flying Goods Wagon (1949)

Providing Goods for You (1944)

Damaged Goods (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Motor Vehicles for Transport of Goods and Materials in Paraguay (reference)

• Sporting Goods in Thailand: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Emporikos Desmos imports and sells consumer goods and: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Sporting Goods in Poland: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

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Books

• Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (reference)

• Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book.) (reference)

• Consumer Goods - Benchmarking the Industry Online [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (Midland Book, 628) (reference)

• Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Industry in India [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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Periodicals

• Return Goods Policy Manual (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Damaged Goods (reference)

• The Goods (reference)

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Music

• Fresh Goods (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Rousseau PS8400 84" Free-Standing Support for Ripping Sheet Goods (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Green beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA.

Sweet Corn. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Friday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA.

Microbiologist Rodney Bothast adjusts a laboratory fermenter that uses glycerol from vegetable oil. After fermentation and a couple of intermediate steps, the glycerol becomes acrylic acid that can be used to make plastic goods. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Wounded men, still confined to bed in ward at work on leather goods, bags, etc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Eastern Hospital for the Insane, Kankakee, Ill. : Delivery Wagon for Baked Goods. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

European goods and high tariff. Credit: Library of Congress.

Delivering the goods!. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Goods train climbs the side of the Rift Valley. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japan: dry goods store. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leather goods store, Alex Freiberger, Ungaria. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information be received by us, or by our chief justiciar, how the merchants of our land found in the land at war with us are treated; and if our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land. (reference)

Secondly, a right, before any other man, to inherit with his brethren his father's goods. (Second Treatise of Government)

The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference)

Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other similar duties. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But X, Y, Z are exactly in the same position as any ordinary purchasers of goods.

And thither bear your treasure and your goods.

And they piled up the goods in the yards and set fire to them

My remaining stock I carried with me, part in money, and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Patients may exchange vouchers for retail goods that are consistent with a cocaine-free lifestyle. (references)

Several different types of protective plugs and muffs are available in most pharmacies, hardware stores, and sporting goods stores. (references)

Business

The origin of goods is of little consideration. (references)

This VAT also applies to locally-produced goods. (references)

The variety of light industrial and consumer goods increased. (references)

Children

Cuba

Police arrested two persons, and a court sentenced one of them to 1 year in jail for selling stolen goods. (references)

Dominican Republic

Homeless children called "palomas" (doves) are frequently at the mercy of adults who collect them and put them to work begging and selling fruit, flowers, and other goods on the street. (references)

Australia

The law makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the grounds of disability in employment, education, provision of goods, services, and facilities, access to premises, and other areas. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

These "internal" closures impede the flow of goods, including food and fuel, and persons. (references)

Moldova

In 1999 the Government established fixed and mobile "fiscal posts" to control smuggling of untaxed goods from Transnistria. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

During comprehensive closures, the authorities severely restrict the movement of goods between Israel and the occupied territories and between the West Bank and Gaza. (references)

Discrimination

Ireland

The 2000 Equal Status Act outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities, and services on the basis of these nine grounds. (references)

United Kingdom

The 1998 Fair Employment and Treatment Order extended the prohibition on discrimination to the provision of goods, facilities, services, and premises. (references)

Economic History

San Marino

Imports--manufactured goods, food. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

None of the goods in Mr. Domash's possession were found to be in violation of the law. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

These cases arise from customary law, where the amount of money or goods due is set by traditional courts. (references)

Congo

The soldiers forced their way into the house, stole money and other goods, and raped the couple's daughter. (references)

Minorities

Latvia

Labels and user instructions for goods sold must be in Latvian, although other languages can be present as well. (references)

Ireland

Travellers face societal discrimination and regularly are denied access to premises, goods, facilities, and services; many restaurants and pubs, for example, will not serve them. (references)

Bulgaria

The statement accused missionaries of the Evangelical Baptist Church of being "agents of foreign influence" and of distributing expired and second-rate goods through its charitable aid program. (references)

Political Economy

HAITI

Most manufactured goods sold here are imported. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

The approved goods are not subject to any export tax. (references)

EL SALVADOR

Most U.S. goods face tariffs from zero to 15 percent. (references)

Trade

Turkey

VAT is also charged for locally produced goods. (references)

Canada

Extended periods are allowed for certain goods. (references)

Poland

This helps to open the market for western goods. (references)

Travel

Kenya

There is solid sales potential for U.S. goods and services in Kenya. (references)

Zambia

Road transportation is the preferred means of transport for many goods. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The vehicle or goods must then be exported at the end of the stipulated period. (references)

Women

Cuba

The law also grants working mothers preferential access to goods and services. (references)

Mozambique

Without such approval, a woman cannot lease property, obtain a loan, or contract for goods and services. (references)

Mozambique

When a husband dies, his widow is only fourth in line (after sons, fathers, and brothers) to inherit the household goods. (references)

Worker Rights

Mozambique

In 2000 MOZAL became the first firm to produce goods in an EPZ. (references)

Bolivia

Urban children sell goods, shine shoes, and assist transport operators. (references)

Samoa

Children frequently are seen vending goods and food on Apia street corners. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "goods": a goods train ♦ abandoned goods ♦ Acceptance of goods ♦ accumulate goods ♦ auction goods ♦ auxiliary goods ♦ baked goods ♦ bakery goods ♦ bale goods ♦ black goods ♦ blocking of goods and services ♦ bonded goods ♦ branded goods ♦ bulk goods ♦ bulky goods ♦ buy goods by the tally ♦ canned goods ♦ capital goods ♦ Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 ♦ Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 ♦ categories of goods carried by sea ♦ china goods ♦ circulating capital goods ♦ community of goods ♦ Confusion of goods ♦ consumer goods ♦ consumer nondurable goods ♦ consumers goods ♦ Consumer's goods ♦ consumption goods ♦ contraband goods ♦ conveyance of goods ♦ dangerous goods ♦ dangerous goods recapitulation message ♦ deal in stolen goods ♦ dealer in antiquarian goods ♦ dealer in secondhand goods ♦ dealer in stolen goods ♦ deliver the goods ♦ deposit of fungible goods ♦ deposited goods ♦ description of goods ♦ despatch goods ♦ dispatch goods ♦ distressed goods ♦ domestic goods ♦ Dress goods ♦ Dry goods ♦ dry goods store ♦ dump goods ♦ durable consumer goods ♦ durable goods ♦ economic goods ♦ equipment goods ♦ essential goods ♦ expendable goods ♦ exportable goods ♦ express goods ♦ fancy goods ♦ faulty goods ♦ Fine goods ♦ finished goods ♦ first order goods ♦ for goods and all ♦ foreign goods ♦ fragile goods ♦ Free goods ♦ fungible goods ♦ giffen goods ♦ goods agent ♦ goods and chattels ♦ goods carried by sea ♦ goods depot ♦ goods elevator ♦ Goods engine ♦ goods equivalent ♦ goods exported with notification of intended return ♦ goods having entered the country by road ♦ goods in bulk ♦ goods in parcels ♦ goods in process ♦ goods in short supply ♦ goods in transit by inland waterways throughout ♦ goods in transit by road throughout ♦ goods liable to duty ♦ goods lift ♦ goods loaded on a rail vehicle ♦ goods loaded on a road vehicle ♦ goods loaded on a seagoing vessel ♦ goods of negligible value ♦ goods of the first order ♦ goods of the second and higher orders ♦ goods office ♦ goods on hand ♦ goods on sale ♦ goods sea transport link ♦ goods station ♦ goods traffic ♦ Goods train ♦ goods transported by rail ♦ goods transported by road. Additional references.

Beginning with "goods": goods-based, goods-for-goods, goods-inward, goods-producing, goods-related, goods-sheds, goods-specific, goods-train, goods--whichever, goods-yard.

Ending with "goods": capital-goods, consumer-goods, grave-goods, luxury-goods.

Afrikaans

ware (wares). (various references)

Albanian

gjëra të nevojshme (travelling bag), sende personale (duds, duffel, duffle, paraphernalia, personal effects, personalia), pronë (acquest, assets, demesne, domain, estate, gear, holding, land, ownership, patrimony, possession, premise, property, realty), ngarkesë (arrival, batch, burden, cargo, charge, consignment, freightage, haul, lading, load, loading, shipment, stowage, tote, weight), mall (commodity, longing, nostalgia, yearning). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متاع (belongings, effects, wares), ‏حاجيات, ‏بضاعة (commodity, merchandise, ware), ‏بضائع (merchandise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стока (commodity, freightage, kind, merchandise, stock), товар (bulk, burden, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, freightage, imposition, lading, load, loading, tax, tie, tote, weight), артикули, багаж (baggage, belongings, impedimenta, impediments, luggage, things, traps), добри хора. (various references)

Chinese 

物品 (articles, materials). (various references)

Czech

zboží (arrival, commodity, merchandise, truck, ware). (various references)

Danish

varer (export good, exports, good to be exported, goods not removed from warehouse), realkapitalgoder, lægemidler (medical goods, medicines, remedies). (various references)

Dutch

goederen (cargo, wares), colli (bag, bags, bale, bales, barrel, barrels, package, packages). (various references)

Esperanto

varoj (wares), sendaĵeroj (bags, bales, barrels, packages), pakaĵoj. (various references)

Finnish

tavara (article, commodity, merchandise, product, property, ware, wares). (various references)

French

marchandises, biens (medical goods), articles. (various references)

German

güter (manors), waren (commodities, manufacture, merchandise, wares, were). (various references)

Greek 

υλικό αγαθό, αγαθά. (various references)

Hebrew 

מקחה (merchandise), חפצים (chattels, stuff), טובין, סחורות (merchandise), סחורה (commodity, merchandise, stock, trade, ware). (various references)

Hungarian

javak (havings, possessions), ingóságok (effects, household stuff, movables, personalty), vagyon (asset, bank-roll, estate, fortune, opulence, pelf, possessions, property, riches, shekels, substance, title, wealth), ingóság (chattel, personal estate, personalty), áruk, árucikkek (articles hard to come by, wares), áru (cargo, chaffer, commodity, item, merchandise, product, seller's over, ware). (various references)

Indonesian

bondo. (various references)

Irish

maith (forgive, good, nice, of goods, okay, pardon, well). (various references)

Italian

beni (assets, estate, good, property). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

品 (article, counter for meal courses, dignity, thing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しなもの (article, thing), しな (article, China, coquetry, counter for meal courses, dignity, thing), しろもの (affair, article, fellow, thing), しょうひん (article of commerce, commodity, essay, literary sketch, merchandise, prize, something very small, stock, trophy), ひん (article, becoming poor, counter for meal courses, dignity, living in poverty, poverty, thing), ぶっぴん (articles), ぶっし (Buddhist image maker, materials), グッズ (promotional items). (various references)

Korean 

도구. (various references)

Manx

cooid [f] (assets, part, possessions, proportion, supplies, valuables), cooid (assets, part, possessions, proportion, supplies, valuables, wealth). (various references)

Norwegian

varer. (various references)

Pig Latin

oodsgay.(various references)

Portuguese

bens (belongings, estate, moneybag, riches). (various references)

Romanian

stofe, obiecte, marfã (article, good, material, merchandise, produce, seller, stuff, wares), lucruri (things), efecte (paper), bunuri (all, assets, belongings, effect, estate, good, having, hereditament, holding, stuff), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), bagaje (luggage), avere (all, assets, belongings, effect, estate, fortune, gold, having, means, opulence, patrimony, possession, property, substance, wealth), articole comerciale, încãrcãturã (burden, cargo, charge, freight, load, loading, shipment, weight), ţesãturi (soft goods). (various references)

Russian 

товар (articles, bales, commodities, commodity, dry goods, goods-sheds, merchandize). (various references)

Scottish

bathar (merchandise, wares). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tekovina (acquest, attainment, heritage), roba (commodity, manufactured goods, merchandise, wares), imovina (assets, property, propriety). (various references)

Spanish

bienes (assets, belongings, estate, havings, holding, possessions, property), géneros (merchandise). (various references)

Swedish

gods (country house, country seat, court, estate, freight, manor, material, possessions, property, ware). (various references)

Thai

สินค้า (merchandise). (various references)

Turkish

yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, loading, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), mal (asset, chose, commodity, hereditament, holding, merchandise, possessions, property, ware), eşya (appointments, article, belongings, bulk, commodity, furniture, gear, property, stuff, thing, traps, ware). (various references)

Turkmen 

harytlar (products). (various references)

Ukrainian

товар (article, commodity, ware), вантаж (burden, cargo, clog, consignment, embarkation, freightage, lading, load, plummet, shipment, stowage, tote, weight, weighting, welter), майно (asset, aught, baggage, capital, estate, holding, property, stuff, things, worth). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hàng tiêu dùng (consumer goods), hàng tơ lụa (soft goods), hàng phụ tùng may quần áo (dry goods). (various references)

Welsh

nwydd (article, substance), da (cattle, good, nice, okay, stock). (various references)

bona, bone, boni, bonis, bono, bonorum, bonum, mercem, merces, mercis, praestationes, salboni, supellectilis, suppellex, suppellex suppellectilus, suppellex, suppellectilus. (various references)

avaretanãm, dasa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "goods": scattergoods. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Goods" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gados, Geodh, geods, ghods, Ghodse, godas, Godda, Goddb, godi, godis, Godowski, godz, goids, golds, gooda, goodb, goodest, Goodis, goos, gords, Gotoda, gotohs, goudls, goudys, gowds, gudes, oods, ooids. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dogs, gods, good, goos.

-2 letters: dog, dos, god, goo, gos, ods, sod.

-3 letters: do, go, od, os, so.

+1 letter: godson, goosed.

+2 letters: coydogs, dogdoms, drongos, duologs, fogdogs, godowns, godsons, goodbys, goodies, goodish, hotdogs, noodges, ogdoads, stooged.

+3 letters: bogwoods, dagwoods, dogedoms, doggones, doghouse, dogsbody, dogtrots, dogwoods, dongolas, dragoons, gadroons, gadzooks, globoids, gobioids, godhoods, godroons, gondolas, goodbyes, goodness, gumwoods, logwoods, overdogs, snooding, solidago, stegodon.

+4 letters: agalwoods, bloodings, doggonest, doghouses, doughboys, duologues, gastropod, girlhoods, golcondas, goldstone, goodliest, goodwills, goodwives, goosander, grandioso, groupoids, kinghoods, kingwoods, odographs, ondograms, outdodges, overgoads, prognosed, rigadoons, roughshod, skidooing, solidagos, sourdough, stegodons, supergood.