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Definition of Consumer durables
1. Noun. Consumer goods that are not destroyed by use.
Specialized synonyms: Appliance
Generic synonyms: Consumer Goods
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consumer Durables
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 ..."