Commerce. An order received by a traveller or agent for goods; the goods so ordered; also, the stock on hand of a particular class of goods, goods of…

An item which has been produced in a town. Obsolete.

A class or category of commercial goods. Now rare.

(transferred from sense 4c.) A particular sort or class of goods, as indicated by the trademarks on them.

Originally: an auxiliary business activity or line of merchandise. Later also: an activity done in addition to one’s main job to earn extra income.

The manner in which a thing is made. Of a product of craft or manufacture: style of construction, kind of composition. Now often spec., with…

a line of products with a well-known brand name; also in extended use.

Large domestic appliances that are conventionally white, such as refrigerators and washing machines. Cf. brown goods n. at brown, adj. compounds 2.

electrical merchandise such as radios, televisions, and hi-fi units, conventionally housed in brown casings (as distinct from the white of…

(F. Hirsch's name for) goods which are in limited supply and which become more sought after as material prosperity increases.