As the years passed, paracord became a common civilian commodity.
This essential survival tool can save your life 10 different ways|By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
According to Colyer, these failures often arise because companies fail to understand the cyclical nature of crypto mining, which he likens to the price swings that occur in commodity markets.
There’s (digital) gold in them thar hills: Crypto giant DCG is betting $100 million on mining Bitcoin in North America|Jeff|August 27, 2020|Fortune
In fact, Goldman is tracking cross-border investment flows into equities, commodities and fixed-income assets.
Investors continue to push global stocks into record territory|Bernhard Warner|August 24, 2020|Fortune
Left-handed pitching has long been one of the most prized commodities in professional baseball.
What Really Gives Left-Handed Pitchers Their Edge?|Guy Molyneux|August 17, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Other people have suggested that we ought to have accounted for incumbency in the uncertainty index, on the theory that when incumbents are running for reelection, they are known commodities, which should reduce volatility.
Our Election Forecast Didn’t Say What I Thought It Would|Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 17, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
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?
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If they run off with somebody else, we say they were stolen—as if they are an object or a commodity.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 Apple|Dale Eisinger|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The woman is a commodity to make money—the dowry becomes a business transaction.
Has Malala Become a Puppet of the West?|Nico Hines|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The value of a commodity is not affected by the number of commodities of other kinds.
A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy|Karl Marx
With us, education is a commodity to be trafficked in: abroad, it is a duty.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.|Various
There is therefore nothing deleterious in the usual practice of adulterating this commodity of the table.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons|Fredrick Accum
To lay duties on a commodity exported, which our neighbors want, is a knavish attempt to get something for nothing.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume 3|Various
The real costs which the price of a commodity measures are not absolute, but comparative.
Supply and Demand|Hubert D. Henderson
British Dictionary definitions for commodity
commodity
/ (kəˈmɒdɪtɪ) /
nounplural-ties
an article of commerce
something of use, advantage, or profit
economicsan exchangeable unit of economic wealth, esp a primary product or raw material
obsolete
a quantity of goods
convenience or expediency
Word Origin for commodity
C14: from Old French commodité, from Latin commoditās suitability, benefit; see commodious