commercial unit

commercial unit definition - business

commercial unit

A unit of goods, either a single unit or a quantity, offered for typical commercial usage. Division of a commercial unit is likely to result in an impairment of the value of the contents. For example, a barrel is the commercial unit for petroleum, and a bolt is a commercial unit of finished cloth.

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