1 Food that is perishable has to be used quickly or it will decay so that you cannot eat it:
He owns one of the largest distributors of perishable foods.
2 used to describe products, especially food, that decay quickly:
3 food products that decay quickly:
Perishables account for more than 50% of supermarket sales.
However, the bulky and/or perishable nature of agricultural commodities makes such transactions logistically difficult with potentially high transactions costs.
It might once have been dressed with perishable materials that have disappeared with the passage of time.
In this model, there is no production, but each agent receives endowments of a single, perishable consumption good.
Vegetables are also a highly perishable commodity and therefore sellers are price takers who cannot wait for an upswing in prices.
This situation contrasts with other craft specialties, whose debris may be perishable or not predictably related to output.
The replicas were formed on a base of perishable material, perhaps stucco and / or wood, that represented the bony par ts of the maxilla.
It consists of a large number of two types of agents who produce a single perishable consumption good.
There may also be savings in energy and air emissions from more efficient transport of less perishable products.