commodity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kəˈmɒdəti/    美 /kəˈmɑdəti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. countable,uncountable
    — It is with the help of the commodity concept that the mechanism of the market is geared to the various elements of industrial life. Commodities are here empirically defined as objects produced for sale on the market; […]. But labor, land, and money are obviously not commodities; the postulate that anything that is bought and sold must have been produced for sale is emphatically untrue in regard to them.
  2. Something useful or valuable. countable,uncountable
    — And Slade said: "It really makes me sad that football club chairmen and boards seem to have lost that most precious commodity - patience. "Sam's sacking at Newcastle had, I suppose, been on the cards for a while, but it is really ridiculous to fire a manager after such a short time.
  3. Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges. countable,uncountable
    — The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in World's many commodities exchanges.
  4. Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible. countable,uncountable
    — Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity.
  5. Anything which has both a use value and an exchange value. Marxism,countable,uncountable
  6. Convenience; usefulness, suitability. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  7. Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Shall we employ the intelligence Heaven hath bestowed upon us for our greatest good, to our ruine? repugning natures desseign and the universal order and vicissitude of things, which implieth that every man should use his instruments and meanes for his owne commoditie?

词形变化

commodities plural commoditie alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
biocommodity commodify commoditize commodity currency commodity diplomacy commodity exchange commodity fetish commodity fetishism commodityism commodity market commodity meat commodity money cryptocommodity discommodity multicommodity
相关词
commodification commoditization

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin commoditāsder.
Anglo-Norman commoditeebor.
Middle English commoditee
English commodity
Inherited from Middle English commoditee, borrowed from Anglo-Norman commoditee, from Latin commoditās.
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