free goods
Americanplural noun
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imported goods that are not subject to duty.
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goods having utilitarian value, as air and water, but available in such great quantities as to have no cost.
Etymology
Origin of free goods
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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The entrepreneur made his money selling luxury duty free goods to travellers across the world, but he rejected the trappings of wealth himself.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2023
The store is also offering free goods to those who lost their homes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Sales pay for the shop’s rent, free goods and services.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022
Common-property natural resources are free goods for the individual and scarce goods for society.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 4, 2019
But in our treaties with France, &c. we have established the simpler rule, that a free bottom makes free goods, and an enemy bottom, enemy goods.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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