| 单词 | free good |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree good free good n. Economics a useful resource, such as air or sunlight, which is sufficiently abundant to be available without any opportunity cost. ΚΠ 1892 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 3 43 The wealth that he has in house, garden, furnishings, books, etc., as well as the free goods that nature lavishes on the human family. 1924 S. N. Patten et al. Ess. Econ. Theory 81 Free goods are those utilities which are furnished by nature without the coöperation of man. 1975 B. B. Greaves Free Market Economics Gloss. 275/1 Water is a free good beside a lake but a valuable economic good in a dry desert area. 2001 A. Blair & D. Hitchcock Environment & Business iii. 71 Firms have been able to regard the air, rivers, wildscapes and oceans as free goods. < as lemmas |
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