consumer good

English

Noun

consumer good (plural consumer goods)

1. (business, marketing, chiefly in the plural) Goods that are meant to be sold to consumers or end-users.

   Synonym: consumption good

   Coordinate term: capital good

   fast-moving consumer goods

   At a shopping mall, one can purchase all kinds of consumer goods.

   The basket of consumer goods in the United States Consumer Price Index has changed little this year.

   • 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:

     This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.

Translations

Translations

Catalan: bé de consum (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 消費品 / 消费品 (zh) (xiāofèipǐn), (please verify) 消費財 / 消费财 (xiāofèicái) (rare) Czech: spotřební zboží n Finnish: kulutustavara (fi), kulutushyödyke (fi) French: bien de consommation m Galician: ben de consumo m German: Konsumgut (de) n Hungarian: fogyasztási cikk (hu) Polish: dobra konsumpcyjne n pl Portuguese: bem de consumo m Russian: потреби́тельские това́ры pl (potrebítelʹskije továry) Serbo-Croatian: roba široke potrošnje f pl Spanish: bien de consumo m Swedish: konsumtionsvara (sv) c Tagalog: sairing bilihin Ukrainian: спожи́вчий това́р m (spožývčyj továr)

Further reading

• “consumer goods”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “consumer good, consumer goods, consumption goods”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.