brown goods

Definition

› COMMERCE small electrical goods, such as televisions, radios, phones, and computers: Sales in the brown goods sector have doubled in five years. → Compare white goods

(Definition of brown goods noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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