basic goods
Fundamental consumer products
Basic goods are essential items that people need for everyday survival and functioning, such as food, clothing, shelter, and basic household supplies.
In economics, the term often refers to necessities whose demand remains relatively stable regardless of income changes, as opposed to luxury goods.
The charity focused on distributing basic goods to flood victims.
The phrase sometimes extends to fundamental services like healthcare and education that societies consider indispensable.
- necessitiesWhat you cannot lack
- bare necessitiesMinimum requirements for living
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
- daily breadEssential means of living
- staplesSmall metal paper-binders
commodities · provisions · bread and butter · bread · milk · rice · flour · soap · toilet paper · shelter · clothing · sustenance · pantry · groceries · rations · supplies · subsistence · cost of living
- natural lawnatural law, natural rights, natural justice, natural order, universal law
basic goodsluxury goods
Costly non-essential purchases
luxuries · luxury items · non-essential goods · extravagances · superior goods
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