commodities
- 1Plural of commodity.
Traders watched the prices of agricultural commodities climb through the summer.
The country exports several commodities, including copper and timber.
Note
A plural that mostly belongs to the marketplace: raw materials and primary products traded in bulk on specialized exchanges, where one unit counts the same as another. It can also name undifferentiated, low-margin goods, as opposed to branded products that are not fully interchangeable. In Marxist analysis the category is wider still: commodities are anything with both a use value and an exchange value, not just copper or grain.
commodities is a form of commodity
commodity, noun: Any movable good that can be bought and sold. Full entry
- Forms
- commoditycommodities plural
- Spelling
- commodity → commodities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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