defective goods

Flawed retail items

Defective goods are products with flaws that make them unfit for their intended purpose or fail to meet quality standards.

The term appears most often in legal and commercial contexts: The retailer accepted returns of defective goods, Consumer protection laws cover defective goods.

A product may be defective due to manufacturing errors, design problems, or inadequate warnings.

Opposites
quality/functionality

defective goodssuperior goods

Products bought more as income rises

durable goods

Family

goods, defect, defective

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G