Definition of Consumer durables

1. Noun. Consumer goods that are not destroyed by use.

Exact synonyms: Durable Goods, Durables
Specialized synonyms: Appliance
Generic synonyms: Consumer Goods
Language type: Plural, Plural Form

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consumer Durables

consulting staff
consultive
consultor
consultors
consults
consumable
consumables
consumate
consume
consumed
consumedly
consumer
consumer advocacy
consumer credit
consumer durables (current term)
consumer finance company
consumer good
consumer goods
consumer loan
consumer organizations
consumer participation
consumer price index
consumer research
consumer rights
consumer satisfaction
consumerdom
consumerism
consumerisms
consumerist

Literary usage of Consumer durables

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Financial Liberalization and the Internal Structure of Capital Markets in by Miguel Urrutia (1988)
"In consumer durables, Korea's export competitiveness was not as strong as in ... Vis-a-vis Japan, Korea still remained a net importer of consumer durables, ..."

2. Wheat Policy Reform in Egypt: Adjustment of Local Markets and Options for by Mylène Kherallah (2001)
"The value of consumer durables was used as a measure of wealth and thus a proxy for the standard of living of the households. Average wealth and farm size ..."

3. Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2003)
"These households possess a number of consumer durables. ... consumer durables and jewellery are the main assets over which household members could exercise ..."

4. Rural Infrastructure, the Settlement System, and Development of the Regional by Sudhir Wanmali (1992)
"These households consider consumer durables and middle-order goods and services to be superior and transportation inferior. No signs of inferiority or ..."

5. Service Provision and Its Impact on Agricultural and Rural Development in by Sudhir Wanmali, Jonathan M. Zamchiya (1992)
"... and agricultural extension; agricultural marketing; food and personal services; building and construction; fuel and energy; and consumer durables. ..."

6. Adjustment and Equity in Chile by Patricio Meller (1992)
"Explanations of this paradox are not completely satisfactory. i) The relative price of consumer durables faced by Chilean households ..."

7. Poverty, Household Food Security, and Nutrition in Rural Pakistan by Harold Alderman, Marito García (1993)
"Both observed savings and savings defined as residuals are presented with and without consumer durables. The consumer durables category includes furniture ..."

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