prestige goods

collocation in English

meanings of prestige

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prestige
adjective[before noun]
uk /presˈtiːʒ/ us /presˈtiːʒ/
causing admiration because of being connected with being rich ...
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Examples of prestige goods

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In spatial terms, districts were informal clusters of villages within a loosely defined geographical area whose inhabitants practiced intermarriage and exchanged trade and prestige goods.
Some of the valuables were prestige goods or luxury items.
This power was reinforced by chiefly participation in exchange systems involving the production and exchange of prestige goods.
This meant that there was steady pressure to maintain trade links in order to obtain cloth and other prestige goods in this cattleless region.
This social inequality is also observed through the prestige goods deposited as grave offerings.
These hollow earthenware sculptures are considered to be prestige goods because of their specialized manufacture and the way they describe images and attitudes of the caciques.
Prestige goods were a fixed set of luxury items.
The actual translation of tga is treasured or valuable and the term also refers collectively to prestige goods produced by women for ceremonial exchanges.
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There has been much speculation over the mysterious purpose of what are likely prestige goods.
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These baskets often held prestige goods of great status that were given to the king.
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