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capital goods

plural noun

, Economics.

capital goods

See consumer goods
economics goods that are themselves utilized in the production of other goods rather than being sold to consumers Also calledproducer goods Compare consumer goods

capital goods

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

First recorded in 1895–1900

How does capital goods compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

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.

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