0 goods that last a long time and are not intended to be bought very often, such as televisions and cars --
1 → durable goods : --
The price of many big-ticket consumer durables, such as automobiles or refrigerators, remained stable or fell last month.
The greater sophistication of world trade has been largely due to the greater sophistication of consumer durables.
It is the sum total of what people do—whether they stay in or whether they go out and spend frivolously, or on consumer durables.
Most capital share calibrations in the real-business-cycle literature use values of one-third or higher, based principally on inclusion of consumer durables in the measure of the capital stock.
Moreover, home ownership encouraged the growth of a mentality that placed a high premium on property and consumer durables as economic and cultural ends in themselves.
Sometimes people leave the labels on consumer durables to emphasize their origins; likewise, empty tins and packets from imported sweets or perfume are left on display around the house.
Those households owning more consumer durables report lower recent fertility.
Consumer durables, as relatively affordable portable property associated with marriage and domestic life, stand between these two extreme forms.
Abandoned furniture and consumer durables were a sign of the rapid turnover of residents.
