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goods
/ ɡʊ /
plural noun
- possessions and personal property
- sometimes singular economics commodities that are tangible, usually movable, and generally not consumed at the same time as they are produced Compare services
- articles of commerce; merchandise
- merchandise when transported, esp by rail; freight
- ( as modifier )
a goods train
- the goods
- that which is expected or promised
to deliver the goods
- the real thing
- incriminating evidence (esp in the phrase have the goods on someone )
- a piece of goods slang.a person, esp a woman
goods
- Merchandise; wares; tangible products that satisfy human wants. ( Compare services .)
Idioms and Phrases
see damaged goods ; deliver the goods ; get the goods on ; sell a bill of goods ; straight goods .Example Sentences
His administration said when the new tariffs were added on to existing ones, the levies on some Chinese goods could reach 245%.
It can take most of the day just to get around one department given each of them has an airport hangar's worth of goods on show.
The US economy shrank in the first three months of the year due a drop in government spending and a surge in imports as firms raced to get goods into the country ahead of tariffs.
The problem is that China cannot simply flip a switch and move from selling goods to the US to selling them to local buyers.
With an increasing number going card-only, the committee said prices would rise for essential goods and services in the remaining outlets that accepted cash.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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