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economic good

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noun

  1. a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.


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Chahal stands ready to cash in, knowing firsthand what economic good times feel like.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

Will Gonzalez, executive director of Ceiba, a non-profit organization in Philadelphia that promotes the economic good of the Latino community, took the long view.

From Washington Times Dec. 26, 2022

It concerns Metro’s ability to pay for the service its passengers expect, and that the region desperately needs if it is to return to economic good health.

From Washington Post Sep. 25, 2022

Farnsworth had the right ideas, but lacked the economic good luck required to make the most of them in a capitalist society.

From Salon Sep. 24, 2022

Individual spontaneity is thus the root of economic good; and the real justification of the state is the protection it affords to this impulse.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

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