Commodity

Definition of Commodity

Com`mod´i`ty
n.1.Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.
Drawn by the commodity of a footpath.
- B. Jonson.
Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered.
- Hooker.
2.That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), - goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
3.A parcel or quantity of goods.
A commodity of brown paper and old ginger.
- Shak.

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artefact, artifact, basic, consumer goods, drygoods, entrant, export, exportation, fancy goods, fungible, future, goods, import, importation, merchandise, middling, product, salvage, soft goods, staple, trade goods, wares
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