capital goods

capital goods pl (plural only)

1. (economics) Produced goods that are chiefly used in production of further goods, in contrast to the consumer goods
   • 2004, General Equilibrium, Capital And Macroeconomics: A Key To Recent Controversies In Equilibrium Theory, by Fabrio Petri, page 84

     Some of the products of the economy are capital goods. For simplicity and as an aid to intuition, I assume that capital goods and consumption goods do not overlap: the m consumption goods are useless as means of production, and the n capital goods yield no direct utility.

• producers' goods
• means of production