inferior goods
Americanplural noun
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Giffen Goods are not superior goods at all, they are inferior goods.
From Forbes • Nov. 23, 2014
The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position" of state enterprises.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Soviet legal code outlaws a whole range of economic activities, such as conducting a private business, acquiring foreign currency, and delivering inferior goods for sale on the Soviet market.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unprized Packaging Sir: Recessional Sir: How can anyone call this a depression when the consumer is paying inflation prices for inferior goods and services?
From Time Magazine Archive
It was originally used to designate a class of inferior goods intended for use in the army from the sale of which many fortunes were made.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
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