Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
capital goods
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost two-thirds of the increase in the volume of imports last year was in capital goods, intermediate goods and semi-finished manufactures.
▪ But who, specifically, will register votes for capital goods?
▪ However, continued investment of raw materials and capital goods was required if the necessary growth and investment was to be sustained.
▪ Moreover, imbalances arose within the economy as a whole, in particular between consumption goods and capital goods.
▪ Secondly, there are enormous index number problems in constructing price series for capital goods.
▪ So will the investment in capital goods and engineering skills needed to modernise outmoded factories.
▪ The mechanism would apply to manufactures and processed agricultural products and capital goods, but not to agricultural raw materials.
▪ This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run.
Wiktionary
capital goods
n. (context economics English) Produced goods that are chiefly used in production of further goods, in contrast to the consumer goods