Luxury
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Luxury is a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity: Gold cufflinks were a luxury not allowed for in his budget.
Luxury may refer to:
- Luxury good, an economic good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises; contrast with inferior good and normal good
- Luxury tax, tax on products not considered essential, such as expensive cars
- Luxury tax (sports), surcharge put on the aggregate payroll of a sports team to the extent to which it exceeds a predetermined guideline level set by the league
- Luxury vehicle, expensive automobiles
- Luxury trains, expensive tourist trains
- Luxury yacht, expensive privately owned, professionally crewed yacht
- Luxury real estate, niche real estate market dealing with the highest economic group of property buyers
- Luxury resorts, exclusive vacation facilities
- Luxury box, term for a special seating section in arenas, stadiums and other sports venues
- Luxury magazine, magazines devoted to fine craft and luxury goods.
Other:
- Luxury (band), rock band from Toccoa, Georgia
- Luxury (album), the second album from Fantastic Plastic Machine
- Luxury, 2007 album from The Nein
- "Luxury", song by The Wrens from the 1996 album Secaucus
- Luxury, small independent Swedish record label
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