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 goods

   Coordinate term: capital goods

   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), 消費財／消费财 (xiāofèicái)

• Czech: spotřební zboží n
• Finnish: kulutustavara (fi), kulutushyödyke (fi)
• French: bien de consommation m
• Galician: ben de consumo m
• 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 at Google Ngram Viewer