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1. Commodity
   A commodity is food, metal, or another physical substance that investors buy or sell, usually via futures contracts.
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2. commodity
   [Noun] Plural form: commodities. Goods that are bought and sold.
   Example: Some commodities are expensive, like new cars and sailing boats.
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3. Commodity
   A tradeable item that can generally be further processed and sold; for example metals, wheat, sugar, coal etc.
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4. commodity
   A raw material traded on a commodities market.
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5. Commodity
   Bulk goods traded on an exchange. Examples are gold, silver, platinum, coffee, grain and sugar. Anything mined is a hard commodity, anything grown is a soft commodity.
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6. commodity
   [n] - articles of commerce
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7. Commodity
   Any item that can be bought and sold. Taken to refer to Exchange-traded items, including sugar, wheat, coffee, tin etc.
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8. Commodity
   An undifferentiated product; one that can be bought in identical form from many suppliers giving no supplier a chance to sell at margins that would generate above normal returns....more on Commodity
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9. commodity
   Something produced for sale. Commodities may be consumer goods, such as radios, or producer goods, such as copper bars. Commodity markets deal in raw or semi-raw materials that are amenable to...
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10. Commodity
    products produced for export.
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11. commodity
    a commodity is food,a metal or another physical substance that investors buy or sell,usually via futures contracts Category: Commerce - movement of goods
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12. Commodity
    Com·mod'i·ty noun ; plural Commodities . [ French commodité , from Latin commoditas . See Commode .] 1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [ Obsolete] «...
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13. commodity
    trade good noun articles of commerce
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14. Commodity
    • (n.) A parcel or quantity of goods. • (n.) Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. • (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), --...
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15. commodity
    (from the article `economics`) ...define economics, it is not difficult to indicate the sort of questions that concern economists. Among other things, they seek to analyze the ... ...have been closer to their subject matter than other economists. In consequence, more is known about the technology of agriculture, the nature of ... The...
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16. Commodity
    Any bulk good that is usually bought and sold via futures contracts such as grains, meats, and metals. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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17. Commodity
    Could refer to any good, but in a trade context a commodity is usually a raw material or primary product that enters into international trade, such as metals (tin, manganese) or basic agricultural products (coffee, cocoa).
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18. commodity
    A commodity is defined as a physical product which is or can be traded on a secondary market, e.g., agricultural products, minerals (including oil) and precious metals....
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19. Commodity
    In business a commodity is a raw material, such as grain, coffee, cocoa, wool, cotton, jute, or rubber (sometimes known as soft commodities), that is traded on a commodity market. In some contexts these raw materials are referred to as produce. In economics a commodity is a good regarded as the basi...
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20. commodity
    Something produced for sale. Commodities may be consumer goods such as radios, producer goods such as copper bars, or raw materials such as cotton. Commodity markets deal in raw or semi-raw materials that are amenable to grading and that can be stored for considerable periods without deterioration. Commodity markets developed to their present f...
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21. Commodity
    A `commodity` is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. A commodity has full or partial fungibility; that is, the market treats it as equivalent or nearly so no matter who produces it. Examples are petroleum and isbn = 0-13-063085...
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22. 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. human labor-p...
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