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disposable goods

plural noun

  1. consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc Also calleddisposables Compare durable goods
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"From daily disposable goods to household appliances, the wave of price hikes is spreading to non-food items as well," Shinkin Central Bank economists wrote in a note.

From Reuters

But many ultra-Orthodox Jews saw the extra cost as an assault on a way of life that relies on the convenience of disposable goods to ease the challenges of managing their large families.

As a recent piece in The Atlantic explores, the ubiquity of plastics has more to do with the petrochemical industry's need to sell its byproducts than any inherent need we have for disposable goods.

From Salon

Most of the people in the original audience for "Casablanca" still understood movies as marketable commodities, disposable goods.

From Salon

Its aim is to prolong the life of its products and dispel the idea that it makes disposable goods.

From BBC

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