Goods vs Groceries - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between goods and groceries

is that goods is that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed while groceries is the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery.

goods

English

Noun

(head)

(business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

(informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.

(transport) freight (not passengers)

English plurals

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

Synonyms

* (that which is consumed) wares * evidence, facts

Antonyms

* (that which is consumed) capital, services

Derived terms

* baked goods * bill of goods * brown goods * capital goods * come up with the goods * consumer goods * cost of goods sold * damaged goods * dangerous goods * deliver the goods * digital goods * dry goods * fancy goods * finished goods * get the goods on, have the goods on * goods and sales tax * goods train, goods van, goods wagon * grave goods * greige goods * heavy goods vehicle * leathergoods * nongoods * red goods * sell someone a bill of goods * smallgoods * softgoods * white goods

External links

* (wikipedia "goods")

Anagrams

groceries

English

Noun

(head) (p)

The commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery.

She carried a sack of groceries in from the car and set it on the kitchen table.

Multiple retailers of groceries.

There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither looked very profitable.