commodity
English
/kəˈmɑdəti/, /kəˈmɒdəti/
noun
Definitions
- Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
- Something useful or valuable.
- (economics) raw Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- (marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
- (Marxism) Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
- (obsolete) Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
- (obsolete) self-Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English commoditee derived from commoditee derived from Latin commoditās.
Origin
Latin
commoditās
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- biocommodity English
- commodifiability English
- commodifiable English
- commodification English
- commodifier English
- commodify English
- commoditization English
- commoditize English
- commoditizer English
- commodity meat English
- decommodify English
- decommoditize English
- discommodity English
- meat English
- multicommodity English
- recommodify English
- commoditās Latin
- comodità Italian
- commodité French
- comodidad Spanish, Castilian
- comodidade Portuguese
- commoditee Middle English
- comoditat Catalan, Valencian
- commodité Middle French
- commoditee xno