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.
Favorable figures on trade or the purchase of consumer durables will drive up the stock market, or rather (to be precise) the stock indexes.
Yet in the 1920s more and more of the common symbols of material progress were mechanical consumer durables.
Instead, it was deemed normal that youngsters spend their money on clothes, entertainment or consumer durables, or that they should save for marriage.
Instead, respondents were asked about the consumer durables owned by the household, such as radio, television, car, bicycle, farming animal and the like.
He also found that people invest in fixed assets and consumer durables in order to reduce their income transfers.
However, one can argue that the omission of consumer durables may be inappropriate when studying longer-horizon returns.
Rather, agents derive utility from the service flow derived from the stock of consumer durables.
Abandoned furniture and consumer durables were a sign of the rapid turnover of residents.
