piece goods

1. 1.

   merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard

   Synonymsyard goods

   Broadermerchandise

   plural

Questions about piece goods

What does piece goods mean?

piece goods means "merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard".

What is another word for piece goods?

Close synonyms include yard goods. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piece goods a common word?

piece goods is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.