COMMODITIES

Definition: COMMODITIES

COMMODITIES

Plural

1. Of Commodity

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COMMODITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Business

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mart

Commodities exchange, futures exchange, futures market.

Crosswords: COMMODITIES

To a network, probably, we're all commodities. To me? (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth)

I'm a commodities broker. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Amsterdam Commodities N.V.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Daiichi Commodities Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Special Transactions and Commodities Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Special Transactions and Commodities in The Middle East (reference)

• The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Special Transactions and Commodities (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Contested Commodities (reference)

• Culture or Trash?: A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities (reference)

• God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader (reference)

• How I Made $1,000,000 Trading Commodities Last Year (reference)

• How to Build a Fortune in Commodities (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Australian Commodities (reference)

• Commodities (reference)

• Principal Agricultural Commodities Australia (reference)

• Standard & Poors Review Of Securities Commodities Regulations (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

School lunches are prepared using USDA commodities. Credit: USDA.

Jose Lopez check on commodities in the storage area of T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA. Credit: USDA.

Kathy Wilson inspect labels on USDA commodities at the Montgomery County Food and Nutrition Service Center Warehouse in Montgomery County, MD. Credit: USDA.

Washington, D.C., 1940--A Negro girl giving thanks for a free school lunch made possible by surplus farm products bought by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation and turned over to local relief agencies for distribution. Credit: Library of Congress.

Relief line waiting for commodities, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican man and woman waiting for relief commodities, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Distribution of surplus commodities near the railroad station. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cabo Rojo (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Waiting in line for surplus commodities. They received fatback and meal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Waiting in line at the surplus commodities office. Fatback and meal were distributed that day. Credit: Library of Congress.

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up. (Second Treatise of Government)

The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. (reference)

In order to enable the Allied and Associated Powers to proceed at once to the restoration of their industrial and economic life, pending the full determination of their claims, Germany shall pay in such installments and in such manner (whether in gold, commodities, ships, securities or otherwise) as the Reparation Commission may fix, during 1919, 1920 and the first four months Of 1921 , the equivalent of 20,000,000,000 gold marks. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Government-owned companies purchase commodities through calls for international tenders. (references)

Newman Books publish an annual directory of U.K. importers and the commodities that they handle. (references)

In addition to customs tariffs, all commodities imported into Poland are subject to Value Added Tax (VAT). (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Pakistan is a net importer of agricultural commodities. (references)

Burma

Internally, some commodities remain subsidized and some are rationed. (references)

Vanuatu

Vanuatu is a small country, with few commodities produced for export. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

Import bans on almost all agricultural commodities have been lifted in recent years. (references)

TURKEY

Moreover, a number of agricultural commodities and other processed products require licenses. (references)

POLAND

The customs duty code has different rates for the same commodities, depending on the point of export. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

Some commodities are also subject to excise duties. (references)

Philippines

The program covers a wide range of agricultural commodities. (references)

Bulgaria

After approval is issued, the commodities may be sold on the local market. (references)

Travel

Uk

During the fall of 2000, fuel refinery blockades by the transport industry caused fuel shortages that curtailed emergency services and public transport (including airlines), and slowed or halted distribution of food and other vital commodities. (references)

Worker Rights

Uganda

Children walk back and forth across the unguarded borders, transporting small amounts of fuel, sugar, coffee, or other commodities. (references)

Tajikistan

Some establishments, both governmental and private, compensated their employees in kind with food commodities or with the products produced by the enterprise, which the employee can sell or barter in local private markets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "COMMODITIES": cash commodities ♦ commodities exchange ♦ commodities exhange ♦ commodities market ♦ competing commodities ♦ exchange of commodities ♦ indirect commodities. Additional references.

Albanian

artikuj të përdorimit të gjerë (consumer goods). (various references)

Chinese 

商�"� (Commodity, merchandise, ware, Wares). (various references)

Danish

terminskontrakter, råmaterialer. (various references)

Dutch

termijncontracten, grondstoffen (raw materials). (various references)

Finnish

raaka-aineet (raw material). (various references)

French

contrat � terme, matières premières, marchandises. (various references)

German

Waren (goods, manufacture, merchandise, wares, were). (various references)

Greek 

πρώτες ύλες (raw materials), εμπορεύματα και αξίες, εμπορεύματα (merchandise). (various references)

Hungarian

árufetisizmus (fetishism of commodities). (various references)

Indonesian

barang-barang (belongings, matter). (various references)

Irish

earraí (merchandise; commodities). (various references)

Italian

merci trattate su mercati organizzati, merci (goods train), materie prime (raw materials). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

物価高 (high prices of commodities), 物価　 (prices in general, prices of commodities), 物価 (prices, prices of commodities), �"�物が納まった (commodities have been delivered), 主要物価 (prices of staple commodities). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しなものがおさまった (commodities have been delivered), しゅようぶっか (prices of staple commodities), ぶっか� か (high prices of commodities), ぶっか (Buddhahood, Nirvana, prices, prices of commodities). (various references)

Korean 

필수�'� (Commodity, requirement, requirements). (various references)

Manx

earraghtyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

ommoditiescay

Portuguese

produtos primários, produtos básicos, mercadoria (article, commodity, merchandise, wares), bem susceptível de ser transaccionado. (various references)

Romanian

mãrfuri (good, job lot, merchandise, ware). (various references)

Russian 

товары (goods, merchandise, shipment, wares). (various references)

Spanish

commodities, objeto de las transacciones a plazo, mercancías (freight, goods, merchandise), materias primas (producer goods, source materials), materias genéricas. (various references)

Swedish

råvaror, handelsvaror (merchandise). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "COMMODITIES": incommodities. (additional references)

Misspellings

"COMMODITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commidities, commodified, commoditas, commoditie, commoditise, commoditized, commodoties, comodities, komatiites. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: sodomitic.

-3 letters: comities, commodes, demotics, dioecism, domestic, immodest, miscited, mistimed, moodiest, semiotic, sodomite.

-4 letters: cestoid, coedits, comedos, commies, commits, commode, cooties, deistic, demotic, diciest, dimmest, disomic, distome, medicos, meiotic, midmost, mimetic, miotics, miscite, miscode, misedit, mistime, modiste, osmotic, osteoid, scooted, somitic, stimied, tomcods, tommies.

-5 letters: cestoi, citied, cities, coedit, comedo, comets, commie, commit, comose.

+2 letters: incommodities.

+4 letters: mastoidectomies, micrometeoroids.