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Commodity
"Commodity" in a Sentence (20 examples)
The 12 countries of the European Community are working out a compromise on agricultural commodity prices.
Service economy is a useful labor that does not produce a tangible commodity.
How is it that otherwise reasonable people come to believe that this same roof, that practically vanishing commodity, is freely obtainable just by packing up and going to another country?
Commodity tax is not included in the price.
Because a new commodity is announced, it is in good supply every three months.
Salt was a rare and costly commodity in ancient times.
Sometimes water becomes a precious commodity.
The government has held commodity prices in check.
Commodity prices were rising.
It's a waste to just have the central banks watching over commodity prices.
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It is with the help of the commodity concept that the mechanism of the market is geared to the various elements of industrial life. Commodities are here empirically defined as objects produced for sale on the market; […]. But labor, land, and money are obviously not commodities; the postulate that anything that is bought and sold must have been produced for sale is emphatically untrue in regard to them.
If a key part of shopping is the conversion of anonymous commodities into possessions, shopping is a cultural as much as an economic activity.
In human geography "commodities" usually refers to goods and services which are bought and sold. The simplest commodities are those produced by the production system just before they are sold.
Referring to the work of Bourdieu, Zukin (2004,38) notes that shopping is much more than the purchase of commodities.
For mineral trains, he adds little other than pointing out the need to expand single-commodity trains and to end the use of mixed-commodity services that required extensive marshalling.
And Slade said: "It really makes me sad that football club chairmen and boards seem to have lost that most precious commodity - patience. "Sam's sacking at Newcastle had, I suppose, been on the cards for a while, but it is really ridiculous to fire a manager after such a short time.
The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in World's many commodities exchanges.
Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity.
Shall we employ the intelligence Heaven hath bestowed upon us for our greatest good, to our ruine? repugning natures desseign and the universal order and vicissitude of things, which implieth that every man should use his instruments and meanes for his owne commoditie?
they commonly respect their own ends, commodity is the steer of all their action[…].
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