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green goods

green goods

2.0
Fresh fruits and vegetables that farmers grow to sell in markets
  • noun
translation icon : productos frescos
  • I always buy organic green goods to ensure my family eats healthy produce.

Examples

  • In the summer, the market is filled with a variety of green goods, including tomatoes and cucumbers.

  • From joint procurement of green goods, connecting with emerging trends, exploring the impact of digital technologies, or sharing knowledge around reshaping our arts ecology, we must continue to think ahead and learn from each other.

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  • The farmer sells fresh green goods at the local market every weekend.

Synonyms

produce
vsgreen goods
137 1.1

Fresh fruits and vegetables often sold at markets

narrows this to being grown specifically for market sale
fresh produce
vsgreen goods
9 1.0

Fruits and vegetables that are picked recently and not processed

highlights being grown for market sale rather than being unprocessed
garden truck
vsgreen goods
  • US
4.6

Fresh fruits and vegetables that farmers grow to sell at markets

has identical meaning but is an alternative name
green groceries
vsgreen goods
  • UK
1.3

Fresh fruits and vegetables sold in shops or markets

focuses on being grown for market sale rather than sales location
greengrocery
vsgreen goods
  • UK
4.1

Fresh fruit and vegetables sold in a market or shop

stresses the grown for sale origin rather than sales emphasis

How Fresh

green goods
2.0

Surface Forms

green goods singular
green goods plural

Morphology

green + good

The meaning is largely compositional: 'green' (fresh/unripe/young) combined with 'goods' (products) plausibly yields 'fresh fruits and vegetables', so part of the sense can be derived from the constituents. However, 'green' also commonly denotes colour or environmental friendliness and this specific collocation is not universally used cross‑linguistically, so a B1 learner might reasonably infer the meaning but could be uncertain without context or prior exposure.

Etymology

Green goods comes from a simple market picture: green plants and leaves sold as goods at stalls. So green goods means 'fresh fruits and vegetables' you can buy at the market.