Background
Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.
Goods and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Goods" instead a noun "Background".
Goods
Background and goods are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Goods".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- There is a small scale economy in the background, with some luxury goods produced and traded, but it's hardly essential to the setting.
Source: Artistic License Economics -
So those that volunteer often are not background-checked properly before they're put into a position to siphon off massive amounts of goods that were supposed to be headed to a war effort.
Source: Video Game / EVE Online - Fell Off the Back of a Truck: some of your citizens (those with criminal background, like convicts or defecting bandits) will offer you "perfectly legitimate" goods that "fell off the back of an airship".
Source: Video Game / Clockwork Empires
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