Property vs Goods – What’s the difference?

Property vs Goods - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between property and goods is that property is something that is owned while goods is (business|economics|plurale tantum) that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

As a verb property is (obsolete) to invest with properties, or qualities.

property

English

Alternative forms

* propretie

Noun

  • Something that is owned.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings
    , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}

  • A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
  • Real estate; the business of selling houses.
  • The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  • An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance
    , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}

  • An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine
    , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo”, meaning ”vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}

  • (label) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
  • An object used in a dramatic production.
  • (label) Propriety; correctness.
  • (Camden)

    Synonyms

    * (something owned) belongings, owndom, possession
    * (piece of real estate) land, parcel
    * (attribute or abstract quality of an object) attribute, feature, owndom
    * (object used in a dramatic production) prop
    * See also
    * See also

    Derived terms

    * abandoned property
    * accidental property
    * bound property
    * chemical property
    * country property
    * essential property
    * hot property
    * intellectual property
    * lost property
    * man of property
    * mechanical property
    * metaproperty
    * mislaid property
    * personal property
    * physical property
    * private property
    * prop
    * propertied
    * property file
    * property ladder
    * property law
    * property line
    * property man
    * property master
    * property owner
    * property porn
    * property rights
    * property tax
    * propertyless
    * public property
    * qualified property
    * real property

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They have here propertied me.

    Statistics

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    goods

    English

    Noun

    (head)

  • (business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
  • (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
  • (transport) freight (not passengers)
  • English plurals
  • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed “goods”: returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

    Synonyms

    * (that which is consumed) wares
    * evidence, facts

    Antonyms

    * (that which is consumed) capital, services

    Derived terms

    * baked goods
    * bill of goods
    * brown goods
    * capital goods
    * come up with the goods
    * consumer goods
    * cost of goods sold
    * damaged goods
    * dangerous goods
    * deliver the goods
    * digital goods
    * dry goods
    * fancy goods
    * finished goods
    * get the goods on, have the goods on
    * goods and sales tax
    * goods train, goods van, goods wagon
    * grave goods
    * greige goods
    * heavy goods vehicle
    * leathergoods
    * nongoods
    * red goods
    * sell someone a bill of goods
    * smallgoods
    * softgoods
    * white goods

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