Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consumer durables
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.
▪ Consumer durables Ownership of particular consumer durables is a further reflection of standards of living.
▪ Automobiles, video recorders, washing machines, personal computers, and most furniture are good examples of consumer durables.
▪ In a sense, then, the purchase of consumer durables is both consumption and a form of investment.
▪ Instead they stress the wide range of expenditures that are interest sensitive, such as expenditure on consumer durables.
▪ There have been fine achievements in the export of cars, televisions and other consumer durables.
▪ We will introduce strict standards of life expectancy for consumer durables and encourage deposit-refund schemes.
WordNet
consumer durables
n. consumer goods that are not destroyed by use [syn: durables, durable goods]
Usage examples of "consumer durables".
The period from when the product is sold to when it's discarded or recycled is called the recovery cycle, and has been estimated as being ten years for transportation (especially cars) and consumer durables, twenty for producer durables (machinery), and up to fifty years for cabling and construction.
Maybe once I become more established I can fly north, rent a U-Haul, then drive south with my reclaimed beloved consumer durables.
It is significant that the one area where the Domination is grossly inferior to the Alliance is in the production of modest consumer durables—.