hard goods

American  

Or hardgoods

plural noun

1. durable goods.

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Etymology

Origin of hard goods

First recorded in 1930–35

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• hard goods vs. soft goods

Example Sentences

Tuttle likes companies working in transmission and distribution build-out, substations and interconnection work, utility-side hard goods and components.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

The last two decades have been hard on department stores, however, with shifts in consumers’ tastes for hard goods and shoppers’ ever-growing attraction to buying online.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2020

Note this does not apply to bonds, commodities or hard goods such as art, jewelry or autos.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015

And after years of contenting itself as the biggest online retailer of hard goods, Amazon has made its media ambitions clear — part of its future lies in occupying screens of all sorts.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2014

In coloring the cheaper grades of hard candies, always make decided colors, but in the finer hard goods and cream work make only delicate shades.

From Frye's Practical Candy Maker Comprising Practical Receipts for the Manufacture of Fine "Hand-Made" Candies by Frye, George V.