If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?
If they run off with somebody else, we say they were stolen—as if they are an object or a commodity.
Taylor knows not only the value of her commodity, but also how to control it.
More than any other media proprietor, Rupert Murdoch had an intuitive revelation about the value of news as a commodity.
The woman is a commodity to make money—the dowry becomes a business transaction.
He had also a trick to mingle his commodity, that that which was bad might go off with the least mistrust.
He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated from us to you.
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
early 15c., "benefit, profit, welfare;" later "a convenient or useful product," from Middle French commodité "benefit, profit," from Latin commoditatem (nominative commoditas) "fitness, adaptation, convenience, advantage," from commodus "suitable, convenient" (see commode). General sense "property possession" is from c.1500.
Any product manufactured or grown.
