单词 | commodity |
释义 | commodity (once / 350 pages) n A commodity is any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought and sold. Grain, vegetables, and precious metals are commodities, but so are personal qualities that can be used to make money: Originality and imagination are rare commodities in the film business. Farmers closely follow the commodities' markets, where the future value of the crops they grow are traded, and on any given day assigned a different value. Commodity descends from Middle English commodite "benefit, profit," from Old French, from Latin commoditās "fitness," from commodus "convenient, appropriate," from the prefix com- "with" plus modus "measure." WORD FAMILYcommodity: commodities USAGE EXAMPLES“It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Global commodities producers are hoping that China will order big lumps of iron, coal and copper in the new year to send prices higher. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Trading in several commodities, including crude oil, was closed on Monday. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) n articles of commerce Syn|Hypo|Hyper good, trade good basic, staple (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant consumer goodsgoods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption drygoods, soft goodstextiles or clothing and related merchandise entranta commodity that enters competition with established merchandise export, exportationcommodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country fancy goodsgoods that are chiefly ornamental fungiblea commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation futurebulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date import, importationcommodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country merchandise, product, warecommodities offered for sale middlingany commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) shoppingthe commodities purchased from stores sporting goodssports equipment sold as a commodity worldly good, worldly possessiona commodity or good associated with the earthly, rather than the spiritual, existence of human beings salvageproperty or goods saved from damage or destruction cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipmentgoods carried by a large vehicle article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearablea covering designed to be worn on a person's body contrabandgoods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law consumer durables, durable goods, durablesconsumer goods that are not destroyed by use fashionconsumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode featurean article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles genericany product that can be sold without a brand name foodstuff, grocery(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer haberdashery, men's furnishingsthe drygoods sold by a haberdasher ironmongerythe merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop irregular, secondmerchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name business line, line, line of business, line of merchandise, line of products, product linea particular kind of product or merchandise numberan item of merchandise offered for sale oil future, petroleum futurepetroleum bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date refilla commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents releasemerchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film) dreck, schlock, shlockmerchandise that is shoddy or inferior software package, software productmerchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale soybean futuresoybeans bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date inventory, stockthe merchandise that a shop has on hand top of the linethe best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise wheat futurewheat bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date household linen, white goodsdrygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth piece goods, yard goodsmerchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole |
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