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commodity 1. an article of commerce 2. Economics an exchangeable unit of economic wealth, esp a primary product or raw material 3. Obsolete a. a quantity of goods b. convenience or expediency How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| tyrant, imagine that they are my slaves, or my commodity. With respect to gaining money by exchange, the principal method of doing this is by merchandise, which is carried on in three different ways, either by sending the commodity for sale by sea or by land, or else selling it on the place where it grows; and these differ from each other in this, that the one is more profitable, the other safer. They were such a pair as wholesale merchants use for weighing bulky commodities; and quite a bulky commodity was now to be weighed in them. |
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