Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage.
- noun A product or service that is indistinguishable from ones manufactured or provided by competing companies and that therefore sells primarily on the basis of price rather than quality or style.
- noun Archaic Advantage; benefit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Accommodation; convenience; suitableness; commodiousness.
- noun Profit; advantage; interest.
- noun That which is useful; anything that is useful, convenient, or serviceable; particularly, an article of merchandise; anything movable that is a subject of trade or of acquisition.
- noun Distribution of wares; parcel; supply.
- noun Synonyms Merchandise, Goods, etc.
- noun See
property .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.
- noun That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
- noun obsolete A parcel or quantity of goods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun economics
Raw materials ,agricultural and otherprimary products as objects oflarge-scale trading in specializedexchanges . - noun marketing
Undifferentiated goods characterized by a lowprofit margin , as distinguished frombranded products. - noun Marxism Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun articles of commerce
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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MRRLEST8 www. mrrlest8.com While some world stock and commodity markets show signs of calming down, jitters remain despite -- or perhaps because o ... davianletter Oh man, there just might be a few #commodity markets that keep me up this morning.
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Lurking within the physical form of a commodity is a value form; that is, it is an expression of value.
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As I see it, Smith earlier declared that the value of a commodity is the amount of labor necessary TO PRODUCE it.
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Duffy Pratt: Sorry, but a commodity is a fungible good — goods which come to market in such a way that they are not readily distinguishable one from theother.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
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I explained to him my theory of market peaks — that the moment I buy a stock or a commodity is the moment it peaks.
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Sorry, but a commodity is a fungible good — goods which come to market in such a way that they are not readily distinguishable one from the other.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
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Lurking within the physical form of a commodity is a value form; that is, it is an expression of value.
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I explained to him my theory of market peaks — that the moment I buy a stock or a commodity is the moment it peaks.
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Then came Disney, and all at once Broadway was awash in what I call commodity musicals, “new” shows that ape their familiar sources as closely as possible in order to piggyback on their commercial success.
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Luckily for our government and military, however, while this commodity is available in copious quantities, the MSM seems to be totally blind to it.
dbekeny commented on the word commodity
WIZARD
Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a
very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous
creature that crawls on the earth -- or
slinks through slimy seas has a brain!
June 10, 2010