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  1. Goods and services

    Goods are items that are usually (but not always) tangible, such as pens, salt, apples, and hats. Services are activities provided by other people, who include doctors, lawn care workers, dentists, barbers, waiters, or online servers, a book, a digital videogame or a digital movie. Taken together, it is the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services which underpins all economic activity and trade. According to economic theory, consumption of goods and services is assumed to provide utility (satisfaction) to the consumer or end-user, although businesses also consume goods and services in the course of producing other goods and services (see Distribution (marketing)#Channels_and_intermediaries).

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  1. Goods and services

    Generally, goods and services are the outcome of human or nature efforts. In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility. It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. We satisfy our needs and wants by buying goods and services. Goods are items you can see and touch, such as a book, a pen, salt, shoes, hats, a folder etc. Services are provided by other people, such as; a doctor, a lawn mower worker, a dentist, haircut and eating in restaurants.

Editors Contribution

  1. goods and services

    The things/commodities, durables or non durables which exists in day to day activities of a person are goods.


    Submitted by anonymous on November 22, 2020  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of goods and services in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of goods and services in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of goods and services in a Sentence

  1. Larry Kudlow:

    I know that our side expects China very soon to start purchasing American agriculture, commodities, crops, goods and services.

  2. Fred Keller:

    We’re fighting for the American people, this covers people that went to work every day during the pandemic and provided the goods and services that we need as a free society to be successful.

  3. Ross Rubin:

    The biggest barrier down the road is whether (SWYP) offers sufficient differentiation or whether mobile commerce, smartphone initiated commerce will become the dominant way people pay for goods and services in person.

  4. Chris Williamson:

    The big uncertainty is how long these upward price pressures will persist for, and the extent to which these higher charges for goods and services will feed through to consumers.

  5. President Barack Obama:

    If we can get this agreement to my desk, then we can help our businesses sell more Made in America goods and services around the world, and we can help more American workers compete and win.


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