Commodity
a commodity (noun) - a uniform product bought in bulk (raw materials such as cotton, cocoa, silver or cooking oil – but can also describe a manufactured product used to make other things, for example, cloth) (See The Economist glossary)
a scarce commodity
a rare commodity
an export commodity
commodity export volume
the commodity composition of Yugoslavia's foreign trade
commodity prices
fluctuating commodity prices
declining commodity prices which seriously affect less developed economies
commodity retail prices
commodity prices will continue to weaken
commodity prices rallied
commodity prices at their lowest since the Great Depression of the 1930s
a commodity price index
a fall in commodity prices
the existence of a risk premium in commodity markets
buttressing his position by obtaining quasi-monopoly rights in that commodity
a basic commodity
an important commodity
an expensive commodity
a precious commodity
a valuable commodity
the most valuable commodity of all
a commodity exchange
a commodity futures contract
commodities trading
carry on extensive transactions in a commodity
buying and selling commodities
become a commodity
reduced to a commodity
a human reduced to the status of a commodity in the market
a commodity style product
Example sentences:
* Commodity prices, at their lowest since the Great Depression of the 1930s, show no signs of looking up because countries must export more every year just to keep their revenues stable.
* It also predicts that real commodity prices will continue to weaken, with another average decline of 2 per cent projected for 1988.
* The bureau said growth in capital construction, commodity retail prices and export volume had topped 10 per cent thus" enhancing the vitality of the economy".
* Luck is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for.
* After falling throughout 1989, commodity prices rallied in the first part of 1990.
* The ads were aimed at promoting Koons, the artist, not the art, had become a commodity.
* A chattel slave is a human being reduced to the status of a commodity in the market.
* These would have contained garden-like areas for growing vegetables, herbs for flavouring, dyes and medicines, fruit trees and space for hives, honey being an important commodity and mentioned as goods rendered from some estates.
* The late 1920s and early 1930s were years when building construction was cheap, with a fall in commodity prices.
* In such a market there is a demand price for each amount of the commodity, that is, a price at which each particular amount of the commodity can find purchasers in a day or week or year.
* For instance, if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan, if the international price for the country's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time, can the loan be regarded as justified?
* In the following year, having recently seen madder, Rubia tinctorum , grown and processed for dye in Holland, he asked if this commodity was grown in the north of England.
* Moser points out that the majority of small-scale enterprises, of the type described in the informal sector, fit into the character of petty commodity production.
* New York's Commodity Exchange (Comex), which recently lost the Chicago Board of Trade as a prospective partner, received an offer from the New York Mercantile Exchange.
* The widespread acceptance of floating exchange rates has been associated with a period of less favourable economic developments, such as massive payments imbalances arising from large but often irregular oil prices increases, declining commodity prices (which seriously affect less developed economies), high interest rates during the 1980s (which worsened the debt position of many countries), and lower average economic growth compared with the Bretton Woods era.
* Not a lot of money, but the most I can pay for any given commodity.
* The commodity composition of Yugoslavia's foreign trade, averaged over the five years 1980-84.
* The key requirement is acceptability of whatever commodity is chosen as money in a society.
EE2 1399 Sometimes this function was performed by castle towns, but some centres of the commodity economy were separate from domain administration.
* For a greater majority of the time the supposed glamour of Television was an entirely invisible commodity.
* Protectionist measures were enacted to ensure the republic's food stocks, including freezing the commodity exchange and establishing customs posts along the borders with the RSFSR and Moldavia, as well as banning the export of above-plan produce to other republics until Ukraine had completed its state purchase.
* While margins were under severe pressure in commodity style products due to the import of low priced promotional products from the Orient, unit sales overall increased in both the mass and department store markets.
* In cases where the home country has a small share of world trade for a particular commodity, and the partner country and the rest of the world have a large share, the home country can import the commodity at a constant price i.e. the import supply curve is horizontal.
* A futures contract is an obligation on one side to deliver, and on the other side to take delivery of a precisely specified quality and quantity of some commodity on a specific future date.
