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goods
/ ɡʊdz /
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
Idioms and Phrases
see damaged goods ; deliver the goods ; get the goods on ; sell a bill of goods ; straight goods .Example Sentences
Politico has reported that some Republican donors see Scalise as damaged goods.
In fact, Mexico buys and sells more US goods than any other country on the planet except for Canada.
I never hear a Democrat talk about these goods, which are, in the literal sense, indivisible—for us all.
As more come online, they will actively seek better selling prices elsewhere and also source their goods internationally.
On Thursday, Russian bloggers published pictures of empty shelves in stores that once sold electric goods.
Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.
The carrying of these heavy government debts is a question of the future production of goods, of commerce, and of saving.
The restoration of stolen goods was probably dwarfed in his mind by the importance of capturing the stealers.
He even felt a certain enjoyment in the discomfiture of the self-constituted posse of searchers for stolen goods.
He and his household are going with their goods in the galliots which are now leaving this city for Yndia.
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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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