big-ticket

Example Sentences

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While the consumer-goods subsidies helped raise spending temporarily, the payoff has stalled now that many shoppers have already used the subsidies to make big-ticket purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal

Consumers increasingly indicated that they were not planning on big-ticket purchases in the next six months as well, suggesting that they are becoming more selective in their spending.

From Barron's

In the 2000s, it was ¥42 trillion in government spending on cash handouts to households and various schemes to subsidize household purchases of big-ticket items.

From The Wall Street Journal

And not just for the big-ticket impulse buys, either — mostly for the tiny, perfidious ones.

From Salon

Schenk resisted the big-ticket items, but did purchase holiday mugs using the QR code on a card in the living room.

From The Wall Street Journal