consumer goods

plural noun

: goods that directly satisfy human wants

Examples of consumer goods in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Before Microsoft, Bransten was senior vice president of retail and consumer goods industry at Salesforce from 2014 to 2018. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026

Virojt Changyencham/Getty Images Between today's issues with high inflation, elevated interest rates and increasing consumer goods costs, a lot of Americans are feeling the strain that this economic environment is putting on their budgets. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Import taxes are still filtering into prices for some consumer goods. — Bydavid Schepp, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Sep. 2026

According to recent Pew Research Center polling, only 24% of Americans rate the economy as excellent or good, and 66% are worried about the price of food and consumer goods. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for consumer goods

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

Legal Definition

consumer goods

see also:

good sense 2