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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: commodity n : articles of commerce [syn: {goods}]
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