| 词汇 | consumer-durables |
| 释义 | consumer durables noun[ plural ] uk /kənˌsjuː.mə ˈdʒʊə.rə.bəlz/ us /kənˌsuː.mɚ ˈdʊr.ə.bəlz/ goods that last a long time and are not intended to be bought very often, such as televisions and cars耐用消费品 the things you buy purchaseI'm not in a position to make a major purchase like a car. goodsThere's a sale on home goods this week. shoppingCan you bring the shopping in for me? groceriesUSThank you for bagging my groceries for me. acquisitionThat rare book is his latest acquisition. merchandiseThe shop's merchandise was heavily discounted. Products & producers anti-dumping badging begetter big pharma big tobacco end product fabricator general-purpose generator generic generically haul marque notion output overstock producer proprietary purchase specialize consumer durables | Business Englishconsumer durables noun[ plural ] ukus ECONOMICS → durable goods: The price of many big-ticket consumer durables, such as automobiles or refrigerators, remained stable or fell last month. Examples of consumer durablesconsumer durables Favorable figures on trade or the purchase of consumerdurables will drive up the stock market, or rather (to be precise) the stock indexes. Yet in the 1920s more and more of the common symbols of material progress were mechanical consumerdurables. Instead, it was deemed normal that youngsters spend their money on clothes, entertainment or consumerdurables, or that they should save for marriage. Instead, respondents were asked about the consumerdurables owned by the household, such as radio, television, car, bicycle, farming animal and the like. He also found that people invest in fixed assets and consumerdurables in order to reduce their income transfers. However, one can argue that the omission of consumerdurables may be inappropriate when studying longer-horizon returns. Rather, agents derive utility from the service flow derived from the stock of consumerdurables. Abandoned furniture and consumerdurables were a sign of the rapid turnover of residents. Consumerdurables, as relatively affordable portable property associated with marriage and domestic life, stand between these two extreme forms. Those households owning more consumerdurables report lower recent fertility. Sometimes people leave the labels on consumerdurables to emphasize their origins; likewise, empty tins and packets from imported sweets or perfume are left on display around the house. Moreover, home ownership encouraged the growth of a mentality that placed a high premium on property and consumerdurables as economic and cultural ends in themselves. Most capital share calibrations in the real-business-cycle literature use values of one-third or higher, based principally on inclusion of consumerdurables in the measure of the capital stock. It is the sum total of what people do—whether they stay in or whether they go out and spend frivolously, or on consumerdurables. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The greater sophistication of world trade has been largely due to the greater sophistication of consumerdurables. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of consumer durables These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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