capital goods

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plural nounEconomics.
  1. machines and tools used in the production of other goods (contrasted with consumer goods).

Origin of capital goods

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

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How to use capital goods in a sentence

  • In an exactly similar way a body of capital goods is maintained as a perpetual instrumentality of production.

  • What is here important is the fact that it is in the main accomplished without entailing transfers of capital goods.

  • Such a comprehensive study of capital goods, if it is carried far enough, becomes a study of the abiding entity, capital.

  • The capital goods have to be taken unit by unit if their value for productive purposes is to be rightly gauged.

  • capital goods are the shifting component parts of this permanent aggregate.

British Dictionary definitions for capital goods

capital goods

pl n
  1. economics goods that are themselves utilized in the production of other goods rather than being sold to consumers: Also called: producer goods Compare consumer goods

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Cultural definitions for capital goods

capital goods

Goods used in the production of commodities; producers' goods. (Compare consumer goods.)

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