Definition of Commodity

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Commodity

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

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.

A parcel or quantity of goods.

Related Definitions:

Accommodation, Advantage, And, Benefit, Bought, Commerce, Commodiousness, Convenience, Especially, Everything, Except, Goods, In, Including, Interest, Is, Land, Merchandise, Movable, Of, Or, Parcel, Produce, Profit, Quantity, Sold, That, Wares, Which

Commodity Quotations

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold

Truth is life's most precious commodity.
Edwin Louis Cole

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
River Phoenix

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
David Ricardo

Commodity Translations

commodity in Afrikaans is artikel
commodity in Dutch is handelsartikel, artikel
commodity in Finnish is tavara
commodity in German is Bedarfsartikel, Ware
commodity in Portuguese is producto
commodity in Swedish is handelsvara

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