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commodity - use in sentences
Converse of object
- consume: The definition of a " service " is: " a commodity consumed in the instant of its production " .
- export: Iraq has been under comprehensive economic sanctions since 1990, and is only allowed to export one commodity, oil.
- become: Africa's animals have become a commodity to be traded on the international markets!
- sell: He offers interesting examples of how truth can virtually become a commodity sold on the open market.
Adjective modifier
- marketable: In the US, schooling is a $ 650 billion marketable commodity to be traded for a profit.
- precious: With time now a very precious commodity we had to start shooting straight away.
- saleable: The designer's trained skill is a saleable commodity which carries a price.
- tradable: Big business lobbyists want food to be treated like any other tradable commodity in the global market.
- scarce: Open space is a scarce commodity within the urban areas of the District.
- tradeable: As opposed to being a worldwide brand or tradeable commodity, non league sides exist to serve their communities.
Modifies a noun
- fetishism: Does exactly the same not hold for the Marxian commodity fetishism?
- trading: Laura is working part-time toward an M.S. in decision support for commodity trading.
- price: Helped by higher commodity prices, Africa is doing pretty well.
- broker: My advice to get the proper source to compile your data is to get a junior commodity broker to help you out.
- bull: But Jim Rogers, fabled hedge-fund manager of the 1970s and now ardent commodity bull, finds such talk ridiculous.
Noun used with modifier
- export: Coffee as an export commodity grew between the 1850s and the 1870s, and by 1890 coffee had become the nation's principal export.
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