goods English
Noun
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(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
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parcel English
Noun
( en noun)
A package wrapped for shipment.
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An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
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(lb) A group of birds.
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:This youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
*1847 , (Herman Melville), (Omoo)
*:A parcel of giddy creatures of her own age.
A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
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*(John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
*:two parcels of the white of an egg
*(John Addington Symonds) (1840–1893)
*:The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.
Synonyms
* (package wrapped for shipment) package
* (division of land bought and sold as a unit) plot
Derived terms
* parcel bomb
* parcel out
* parcel post
* parcel together
* parcel up
* parcellate
* parcellation
* part and parcel
* pass the parcel
Related terms
* part
* particle
* particular
* particulate
See also
* lot
* allotment
Verb
To wrap something up into the form of a package.
To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out'' or ''into .
* Shakespeare
- Their woes are parcelled , mine are general.
* Dryden
- These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
* Tennyson
- the broad woodland parcelled into farms
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
* Shakespeare
- That mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy.
Adverb
( -)
(obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
* Sir Walter Scott
- The worthy dame was parcel -blind.
* Tennyson
- One that was parcel -bearded.
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