capital goods

plural noun

: capital entry 3 sense 1a(1)

Examples of capital goods in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The bank retained an overweight recommendation on North Asia, favoring South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China's domestic A-share market, alongside technology hardware, capital goods and banks. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 June 2026

Goldman Sachs wrote in a note this week that capital goods will experience the largest increase in representation, and semis and semi-equipment will continue to carry the largest weight in the index (17%) followed by tech hardware (10%). — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 May 2026

Though both models belong to the world of advanced manufacturing and complex capital goods, they're governed by radically different economic and industrial logics. — Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2026

In a market economy, the way allocation of capital goods works, of course, is price signals. — Katie Drummond, Wired News, 18 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for capital goods

• backwoods
• childhoods
• falsehoods
• flatwoods
• hardwoods
• priesthoods
• redwoods
• softwoods
• brotherhoods
• cottonwoods
• likelihoods
• livelihoods