commodity
- an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service.
- something of use, advantage, or value.
- Stock Exchange. any unprocessed or partially processed good, as grain, fruits, and vegetables, or precious metals.
- Obsolete. a quantity of goods.
Origin of commodity
Related Words for commodity
product, goods, material, produce, asset, property, stock, belonging, object, chattel, specialty, thing, article, line, ware, vendibleExamples from the Web for commodity
Contemporary Examples of commodity
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.
Taylor Swift Dumps Spotify, Igniting Turf War Between Spotify and AppleDale Eisinger
November 4, 2014
More than any other media proprietor, Rupert Murdoch had an intuitive revelation about the value of news as a commodity.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror MachineClive Irving
August 25, 2014
The woman is a commodity to make money—the dowry becomes a business transaction.
Historical Examples of commodity
He had also a trick to mingle his commodity, that that which was bad might go off with the least mistrust.
BunyanJames Anthony Froude
He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated from us to you.
MenoPlato
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
NatureRalph Waldo Emerson
commodity
- an article of commerce
- something of use, advantage, or profit
- economics an exchangeable unit of economic wealth, esp a primary product or raw material
- obsolete
- a quantity of goods
- convenience or expediency
Word Origin for commodity
Word Origin and History for commodity
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.
commodity
Any product manufactured or grown.