goods

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Noun

goods

1. (business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
2. (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
3. Plural form of good.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

Synonyms

• (that which is consumed): wares
• (something authentic, important, or revealing): evidence, facts

Antonyms

• (that which is consumed): capital, services

Derived terms

Terms derived from goods

bill of goods brown goods come up with the goods deliver the goods

get the goods on goods train sell someone a bill of goods white goods

Translations

that which is produced, traded, bought or sold

Albanian: pasuri (sq) f. pl., mall (sq) m. Arabic: بَضَائِعُ (baɖáː’iʕu), سِلَع (sílaʕ), بِضَاعَة (biɖáːʕah) Armenian: ապրանք (hy) (aprank’) Bulgarian: товар (bg) (tovar) m. Catalan: béns m. pl., mercaderia f. Chinese: Mandarin: 產品 (zh), 产品 (zh) (chǎnpǐn), 貨物 (zh), 货物 (zh) (huòwù), 製品 (zh), 制品 (zh) (zhìpǐn) Croatian: roba (hr) f. Czech: zboží (cs) n. Dutch: goederen (nl) n. pl., waar (nl) Esperanto: varo (eo) Finnish: tavara (fi) French: biens (fr) m. pl., marchandise (fr) f. German: Güter (de) f. pl., Ware (de) f. Greek: αγαθά (el) (agathá) n. pl. Hebrew: סחורה (sekhórah); מטען (mit‛án) Hungarian: áru (hu) Ido: hav-ajo Indonesian: barang-barang Interlingua: ben

Irish: earraí (ga) Italian: merce (it) f., beni (it) m. pl. Japanese: 品物 (しなもの, shinamonó), 商品 (しょうひん, shōhin), 物品 (ぶっぴん, buppin), 品 (しな, shina) Korean: 상품 (sangpum) Latin: bona (la) n. pl. Latvian: prece (lv) f. Polish: towar (pl) m., dobro (pl) n. Portuguese: bens (pt) m. pl. Romanian: marfă (ro) f. Russian: товар (ru) (továr) m. Scottish Gaelic: bathar (gd) m. pl., maoin (gd) f. Spanish: géneros m. pl., bienes m. pl. mercancía f. Swahili: mali (noun 9/10), bidhaa (sw) Swedish: gods (sv), vara (sv) Telugu: సరుకు, సరుకులు Thai: พัสดุ (phāt dòò), สินค้า (sín khāā) Turkish: mal (tr) Vietnamese: hàng hoá (vi) Welsh: nwydd m.

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