In economics, "one who uses up goods or articles, one who destroys the exchangeable value of a commodity by using it" (opposite...Consumer goods is attested from 1890....price index calculated since 1919, tracking "changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods...

late 15c., "any small charge over freight cost, payable by owners of goods to the master of a ship for his care of the goods...," also "financial loss incurred through damage to goods in transit," from French avarie "damage to ship," and Italian avaria...overboard, or in other ways, all persons who have goods on board or property in the ship (or the insurers) contribute to...the loss according to their average, that is, according to the proportionate value of the goods of each on board....

1650s, misspelling (with French du for de) of Middle English avoir-de-peise, the Norman form of Old French avoir de pois "goods...of weight" (equivalent to Medieval Latin averia ponderis), from aveir "property, goods" (noun use of aveir "have," from...The oldest sense in English is "goods sold by weight" (early 14c.)....ounces; introduced into England from Bayonne, from late 15c. it was the standard system of weights used in England for all goods...

"manufactured goods, goods for sale," Old English waru "article of merchandise," also "protection, guard," hence probably...source also of Swedish vara, Danish vare, Old Frisian were, Middle Dutch were, Dutch waar, Middle High German, German ware "goods...

mid-13c., marchaundise, "trading, commerce, action or business of buying and selling goods or commodities for profit;" mid...commerce; wares, movable objects, and articles for sale or trade," from Anglo-French marchaundise, Old French marcheandise "goods...

1560s, jottsome "act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship," alteration and contraction of Middle English jetteson...From 1590s as "goods thrown overboard;" figurative use by 1861. For distinction of meaning, see flotsam....

1835 (but not in widespread use until 1852), "linen underwear, especially as made for women," from French lingerie "linen goods..., linen warehouse, linen shop, linen market" (15c.), also the name of a street in Paris, from linger "a dealer in linen goods...

1640s, "payment for saving a ship from wreck or capture," from French salvage (15c.), from Old French salver "to save" (see save (v.)). The general sense of "the saving of property from danger" is attested from 1878. Meaning "recycling of waste material" is from 1918, from the Br

1764, "the act or practice of visiting shops for the purpose of examining and purchasing goods," a verbal noun from shop (v.). The meaning "goods that have been purchased" is attested by 1934. Shopping bag is attested from 1864; shopping cart by 1929. Shopping list, of purchases

c. 1200, "nun's head covering," from Anglo-French and Old North French veil (12c., Modern French voile) "a head-covering," also "a sail, a curtain," from Latin vela, plural of velum "sail, curtain, covering," from PIE root *weg- (1) "to weave a web." Vela was mistaken in Vulgar L