goods

/ (ɡʊdz) /


pl n
  1. possessions and personal property

  2. (sometimes singular) economics commodities that are tangible, usually movable, and generally not consumed at the same time as they are produced: Compare services

  1. articles of commerce; merchandise

  2. mainly British

    • merchandise when transported, esp by rail; freight

    • (as modifier): a goods train

  3. the goods

    • informal that which is expected or promised: to deliver the goods

    • slang the real thing

    • US and Canadian slang incriminating evidence (esp in the phrase have the goods on someone)

  4. a piece of goods slang a person, esp a woman

Words Nearby goods

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How to use goods in a sentence

  • Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.

  • The carrying of these heavy government debts is a question of the future production of goods, of commerce, and of saving.

    Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur Phillips
  • The restoration of stolen goods was probably dwarfed in his mind by the importance of capturing the stealers.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • He even felt a certain enjoyment in the discomfiture of the self-constituted posse of searchers for stolen goods.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • He and his household are going with their goods in the galliots which are now leaving this city for Yndia.

Cultural definitions for goods

goods

Merchandise; wares; tangible products that satisfy human wants. (Compare services.)

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Other Idioms and Phrases with goods

goods

see damaged goods; deliver the goods; get the goods on; sell a bill of goods; straight goods.

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