commodity
21commodity — 1) A good regarded in economics as the basis of production and exchange. 2) Any raw material or primary product. 3) A raw material traded on a commodity market, such as grain, coffee, cocoa, wool, cotton, jute, rubber, pork bellies, or orange… …
22commodity — com·mo·di·ty s.f.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS chim. sostanza ottenuta industrialmente, in grande quantità e a basso costo, usata come base per la produzione di altri preparati {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: sec. XX. ETIMO: ingl. commodity propr.… …
23commodity — com|mod|i|ty [ kə madəti ] noun count ** 1. ) something that can be bought and sold, especially basic food products or fuel 2. ) something that is useful or necessary: Time is our most valuable commodity …
24commodity — [[t]kəmɒ̱dɪti[/t]] commodities N COUNT A commodity is something that is sold for money. [TECHNICAL] The government increased prices on several basic commodities like bread and meat. Syn: goods …
25commodity — noun (C) 1 a product that can be sold to make a profit: agricultural commodities 2 formal a useful quality: Time is a precious commodity …
26commodity — 1) A raw material traded on a commodity market, such as grain, coffee, cocoa, wool, cotton, jute, rubber, pork bellies, or orange juice (sometimes known as soft commodities) or base metals and other solid raw materials (known as hard commodities) …
27commodity — /kə mɒdɪti/ noun something sold in very large quantities, especially a raw material such as a metal or a food such as wheat COMMENT: Commodities are either traded for immediate delivery (as ‘actuals’ or ‘physicals’), or for delivery in the future …
28commodity — A useful thing; an article of commerce; a moveable and tangible thing produced or used as the subject of barter or sale. State ex rel. Moose v Frank, 114 Ark 47, 169 SW 333. See commercial commodity …
29Commodity computing — (or Commodity cluster computing) is to use large numbers of already available computing components for parallel computing to get the greatest amount of useful computation at low cost.[1] It is computing done in commodity computers as opposed to… …
30Commodity production — is the production of wares for sale. It is a type of production in which products are produced not for direct consumption by the producers, as in subsistence production, but are surplus to their own requirements and are produced instead… …
