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noun

Commodity n. (pl. commodities)

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. (Obs.) "Drawn by the commodity of a footpath." "Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered."

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.

A parcel or quantity of goods. (Obs.) "A commodity of brown paper and old ginger."

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"Commodity" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been out, trying to clean a path to the spring, but found their labors unavailing. So they filled a cask which stood in the pantry with water, that they might not fall short of this necessary commodity should they ...

— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer

... and in spite of long opposition on the part of the home Government remained, the chief enterprise of the colony. Virginia was founded on tobacco, and like the other Southern colonies, sacrificed everything to the raising of her most important commodity; and for Virginia, as for the other Southern colonies, the conditions necessary for the cultivation of her great staple were of determining influence in the ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... but justice," asserted Mrs. Harling proudly. "Still, justice isn't a common commodity ...

— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett

... circumstance the less surprising, when we reflect that at this time the justice of the cause was comparatively unimportant, and the extent of the recompense the main object to which the soldier looked; and when bravery, like every other commodity, was disposed of to the highest bidder. But France, richer and more determined, outbade all competitors: it bought over General Erlach, the commander of Breysach, and the other officers, who soon placed that fortress, with the whole ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... for his essays that they possess the quality of common sense. He herein pays a very high compliment to the crowd which demands over the bookseller's counter so many thousands of his volumes. Wisdom, admirably put, is not a commodity glutting the market every day. We find in the pages of this new venture so many healthy maxims and so much excellent advice, that we hope the volume will spread itself farther and wider than any of its predecessors. This wish fulfilled will give it ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various

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