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commodities, plural;
  1. A raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee

  2. A useful or valuable thing, such as water or time

  1. (commodity) articles of commerce
  2. Futures magazine is a U.S. based monthly magazine about commodity futures contracts, stocks, options, derivatives and forex.
  3. A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. Commodities are often substances that come out of the earth and maintain roughly a universal price. A commodity is fungible, that is, equivalent no matter who produces it. ...
  4. (Commodity (Marxism)) In classical political economy and especially Karl Marx's critique of political economy, a commodity is any good or service produced by human labour and offered as a product for general sale on the market. Some other priced goods are also treated as commodities, e.g. ...
  5. (commodity) Convenience; usefulness, suitability. [15th-19th c.]; Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. [from 15th c.]; Something useful or valuable. [from 15th c.]; Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage. [16th-19th c. ...
  6. (Commodity(ies)) Raw materials that can be bought and sold.
  7. (Commodity) A tradable item that can generally be further processed and sold; i.e. metals, wheat, coal, etc.
  8. (Commodity) Commodities are bulk goods and raw materials, such as grains, metals, livestock, oil, cotton, coffee, sugar, and cocoa, that are used to produce consumer products. ...
  9. (Commodity) Standard sizes developed for Florida Construction in accordance to block sizes.  Most commonly used in the masonry trade.
  10. A commodity, as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act, includes the agricultural commodities enumerated in Section 1a(4) of the Commodity Exchange Act and all other goods and articles, except onions as provided in Public Law 85-839 (7 U.S.C. ...
  11. (Commodity) A basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other commodities of the same type. Commodities are most often used as inputs in the production of other goods or services.
  12. A commodity is a physical substance such as a food or a metal which investors buy or sell on a commodities exchange, usually via futures contracts.
  13. (Commodity) The underlying instrument upon which a futures contract is based.
  14. (Commodity) a bulk good that is traded on an exchange or in a market. Common examples include gold, oil, coffee, grain, pork and fruit.
  15. (Commodity) Any item that can be bought and sold. Taken to refer to Exchange-traded items, including sugar, wheat, coffee, tin etc.
  16. (Commodity) A material or immaterial item produced for exchange
  17. (Commodity) Raw materials such as crude oil, gold, iron ore, lumber and wheat.
  18. (Commodity) A transportable article of trade or commerce that can be bartered or sold.
  19. (Commodity) A raw material, such as wheat, corn, gold or oil, that can be sold.
  20. (Commodity) An article of commerce or a product that can be used for commerce. In a narrow sense, products traded on an authorized commodity exchange. The types of commodities include agricultural products, metals, petroleum, foreign currencies, and financial instruments and index, to name a few.
  21. (Commodity) Raw materials such as oil, natural gas, precious metals, grains, meats, or other products that are used in processing or manufacturing.
  22. (Commodity) products produced for export.
  23. (Commodity) Raw material traded in specialist markets. Commodities include foodstuffs, base metals and bullion.
  24. (COMMODITY) A general term used to describe the contents of a car.
  25. (COMMODITY) The actual energy provided by a regulated or unregulated utility. For natural gas it is the natural gas without LDC delivery charges. For electricity it is the 'generation" component of the bill .. without EDC charges for delivery and service.