Synonym for vehicle, machinery and engine

Hello Guest

You could try '(fixed) assets' – see this google for a variety of definitions:

Google Definitions of Fixed Assets

Or perhaps 'plant', which is defined in Merriam-Webster as:

2 a : the land, buildings, machinery, apparatus, and fixtures employed in carrying on a trade or an industrial business b : a factory or workshop for the manufacture of a particular product c : the total facilities available for production or service d : the buildings and other physical equipment of an institution

MrP

Thanks MrP

I forgot to mention that these items are not my assets but rather my stock (inventory) intended for sales.

The term "Item" is reserved for more global use in my software, so I'm unable to use that.

As English is not my native tongue I don't have enough feeling for terms like "Device". Can you somehow relate that to "Vehicles", "Trucks", "Machineries" and "Engines"?

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
- Ullur

Hello Ullur, welcome to English Forums!

Tricky. I'm not sure there is a single-word set whose subsets include engines, vehicles, trucks, and machinery. They have 'automotive' in common; but that's an adjective. Mister Micawber's 'heavy equipment' and MountainHiker's 'parts and materials' may be the closest we can get.

The UK tax return includes all your items under 'business plant and machinery', which is why I suggested 'plant'; but I can see that such a word could seem insufficiently intuitive for inventory software.

'Machinery' could be said to include the other terms; but perhaps you've reserved that for something else.

Let's see if anyone else has some good ideas.

MrP

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