commodity

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  1. noun Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage: "Left-handed, power-hitting third basemen are a rare commodity in the big leagues” (Steve Guiremand).
  2. noun An article of trade or commerce, especially an agricultural or mining product that can be processed and resold.
  3. noun Advantage; benefit.
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  • Data becoming a commodity is the number one trend to impact them. —  GISuser - GIS and Geospatial Technology News
  • Futures contracts, for instance, involve placing enormous bets on what the price of a commodity will be at a given time. —  Socialist Worker (Britain)
  • It is a wonderful play, not least because Hall reminds us that the notion of art as a commodity is a very modern - and wrong-headed - one. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • What keeps me from feeling like a commodity is the reams of text that accompany the pictures. —  Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
  • The same value, i.e. the same quantity of objectified social labour, remains throughout in the hands of the same commodity-owner, first in the shape of his own commodity, then in the shape of the money into which the commodity has been re-converted. —  Roughtheory.org
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  1. Middle English commodite, from Old French, convenience, from Latin commoditās, from commodus, convenient; see commodious.

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  1. from French commodité = Provencal comoditat = Spanish comodidad = Portuguese commodidade = Italian comodità, convenience, commodity, from Latin commodita(t-)s, fitness, convenience, Middle Latin commodity (merchandise), from commodus, fit, convenient: see commodious.
 

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