goods

Stock for sale

Goods are physical items that can be bought, sold, or traded, as distinguished from services, which are actions performed for others.

The term appears frequently in commerce and economics: The store sells dry goods and hardware.

Goods may be further classified by type—consumer goods, durable goods, capital goods.

In the phrase the goods, it means evidence or proof of wrongdoing: They caught him with the goods.

If someone delivers the goods, they fulfill expectations or promises.

property

possessions

Things one owns

movables · personalty · assets · holdings · estate · valuables

merchandise

wares

Items offered for sale

items · articles · supplies · assortment · selection · catalogue · offerings · lineup · collection · commodities

freight

cargo

Transported goods

pallets · bulk · crates · haulage · lading · payload · load · carload · truckload · manifest

economic

commodities

Tradeable raw materials

distribution · consumption · scarcity · surplus

trade

imports

Goods brought in

duties · quota · embargo · sanctions · contraband · smuggled · illicit · counterfeit · bonded · duty-free

Categories
Opposites
economic output type

goodsservices

Acts performed for others

labor · intangibles · intellectual property · experiences · subscriptions

moral/ethical valence

goodsevils

Morally harmful things

sins · wrongs · vices · bads · wickedness

benefit/harm to possessor

goodsbads

Undesirable items or outcomes

losses · detriments · liabilities · burdens · encumbrances

Phrases
Family

good, goodness, goodwill, goody, goodly, good-hearted, goodish, goods train

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