/?d??r?blz/→durable goods(Definition ofdurablesfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdurables
durablesFavorable figures on trade or the purchase of consumerdurableswill drive up the stock market, or rather (to be precise) the stock indexes.From theCambridge English CorpusLaggeddurablesand possibly lagged nondurables are significant, with coefficients consistent with habit persistence.From theCambridge English CorpusYet, purchases ofdurablesare an important aspect of variations in the intermediation process and the model should be expanded to include this feature.From theCambridge English CorpusYet in the 1920s more and more of the common symbols of material progress were mechanical consumerdurables.From theCambridge English CorpusOur results support the analysis of nondurables and services as a group without the inclusion ofdurables.From theCambridge English CorpusInstead, it was deemed normal that youngsters spend their money on clothes, entertainment or consumerdurables, or that they should save for marriage.From theCambridge English CorpusAlso,durablesare never separable from nondurables and services, as some of the existing literature has assumed.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, nondurables and services are separable fromdurables, although not vice versa.From theCambridge English CorpusThe next three hypotheses examine the possibility thatdurablesare separable from nondurables and services.From theCambridge English CorpusInstead, respondents were asked about the consumerdurablesowned by the household, such as radio, television, car, bicycle, farming animal and the like.From theCambridge English CorpusHe also found that people invest in fixed assets and consumerdurablesin order to reduce their income transfers.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, one can argue that the omission of consumerdurablesmay be inappropriate when studying longer-horizon returns.From theCambridge English CorpusRather, agents derive utility from the service flow derived from the stock of consumerdurables.From theCambridge English CorpusAbandoned furniture and consumerdurableswere a sign of the rapid turnover of residents.From theCambridge English CorpusIf one wants to includedurables, however, our separability tests reject forming a single aggregate of durable goods.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/durables##
