consumption goods
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of consumption goods
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: ''About half of all consumption goods . . . are bought . . . by the great mass of people who have small incomes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.
From "1984" by George Orwell
But, given these wants, and given their marginal intensities, we are only at the beginning of our explanation of the economic values of the consumption goods.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
The great bulk of their income is turned at once into consumption goods.
From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott
The personal value of money is directly influenced and measured only in exchanges for consumption goods.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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