consumer goods

Noun

Meaning

goods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption

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The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need. Daniel Pennac

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. Dan Lipinski

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. Germaine Greer

I think the key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape. J. G. Ballard

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Private property is that which belong to natural or legal persons and that it is recognize under legitimately acquired fixed assets and consumer goods and means of production. Hugo Chávez

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