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commodities

/kuh-mod-i-tee/US // kəˈmɒd ɪ ti //UK // (kəˈmɒdɪtɪ) //

商品,初级商品,货物,初级产品

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·mod·i·ties.

    • : an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service.
    • : something of use, advantage, or value.
    • : Stock Exchange. any unprocessed or partially processed good, as grain, fruits, and vegetables, or precious metals.
    • : Obsolete. a quantity of goods.

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Examples

  • Shellac was and is an insect commodity, made by the insects.

  • This commodity was going to flow through their property to distant consumers, while enriching people not just outside the county or state, but outside the country.

  • Strong Brazilian shipments at a time of weak consumption because of pandemic lockdowns help explain why arabica futures are down 16% this year, more than any other major farm commodity.

  • The mobile video platform is not exactly a hot commodity considering how it has struggled to attract much positive attention since its April debut.

  • That our attention is a commodity in the information age is no secret.

  • Outside of trading commodities, it also no longer serves as a major global financial center.

  • How did we reach the stage where female bodies are treated as commodities?

  • But most destructively, it distorts that most precious of all commodities for a patient with a disease: hope.

  • The company prides itself on the provenance of its blades, which, while cheap, are hardly commodities.

  • Given that he will soon speculate his remaining money on the commodities market, this downward trajectory does not bode well.

  • Thus among the huge mass of accumulated commodities the simplest wants would go unsatisfied.

  • The Spanish authorities issued a decree regulating the price of meat and other commodities.

  • Like the present America, all the world went to Africa, to get a supply of commodities.

  • Although the demand for agricultural commodities has increased, the output per worker in agriculture has increased more rapidly.

  • The warm air held the smell of all sorts of commodities; there was a great hum of small transactions, clink of small profits.