Hypertext Webster Gateway: "commodity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Commodity \Com*mod"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Commodities}. [F.
commodit['e], fr. L. commoditas. See {Commode}.]
1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage;
interest; commodiousness. [Obs.]

Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. --B. Jonson.

Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were
done with injury to others, it was not to be
suffered. --Hooker.

2. That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit,
especially in commerce, including everything movable that
is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares,
merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

3. A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.]

A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

commodity
n : articles of commerce [syn: {trade goods}, {goods}]


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