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durables

[ US /ˈdʊɹəbəɫz/ ]
[ UK /djˈɔːɹəbə‍lz/ ]
NOUN
  1. consumer goods that are not destroyed by use

How To Use durables In A Sentence

  • No. 844/General Motors/U.S./Consumer durables In June 2009 “old” GM filed for bankruptcy and sold “substantially” all of its assets to a new independent company (the ”new” GM), which currently doesn’t trade. Global 2000 Drop-Offs
  • With the focus, by and large, turning to door delivery, in the case of consumer durables as well as perishables, the location factor has been obscured.
  • The table shows the percentage of household consumer durables sold in the UK from 1972 to 1983.
  • The entire social system, based on kinship and alliances, is shown crumbling away as, in each generation, wealth-bearing brides make off with what they can salvage in money and durables.
  • Sharing space with the sweet and sugary stuff will be all kinds of inedible things from consumer durables and garments to furniture and lifestyle products.
  • As demand begins to exceed supply of waste collected through disposal systems, the price will rise, thereby making it worthwhile to provide incentives for the disposal of stored durables.
  • I'm outmoded in this city of nouveau riche values and consumer durables.
  • Consumer durables Ownership of particular consumer durables is a further reflection of standards of living.
  • Feldstein also criticizes the temporary subsidy for new car buyers "cash for clunkers" as "misguided," but in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Jan. 29, 2009 , he proposed a "temporary refundable tax credit to households that purchase cars or other major consumer durables. Debating Professor Feldstein's Proposals on Stimulus
  • In a sense, then, the purchase of consumer durables is both consumption and a form of investment.
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