consumption goods

Example Sentences

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Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: ''About half of all consumption goods . . . are bought . . . by the great mass of people who have small incomes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.

From "1984" by George Orwell

And there are people, particularly jewelers, who often want money as a raw material for consumption goods.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

It took for granted the existence of individual property, in consumption goods, in capital goods, and, with a certain hesitation, in land.

From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Leacock, Stephen

The great bulk of their income is turned at once into consumption goods.

From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott