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

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

Deliveries of hard goods now amount to about a billion and a half dollars worth a month.

From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman