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Definition of Commodities
1. commodity [n] - See also: commodity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commodities
Literary usage of Commodities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"The first chief function of money is to supply commodities with the material for
the expression ... It is not money that renders commodities commensurable. ..."
2. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is
laid out. Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"... or on account of losses or any other transactions in the purchase or sale of
stocks, bonds, securities, or commodities a made by them for your account. ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"BY taxes on commodities are commonly meant those which are levied either on the
... Taxes imposed directly on the consumers of particular commodities, ..."
5. Elements of Political Economy by James Mill (1826)
"TAXES on commodities may either affect some particular kinds, or all commodities
... When a tax, in proportion to their value, is laid upon all commodities, ..."
6. The Trust Problem by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Walter Ernest Clark (1917)
"influence of combinations on prices, we study the purchasing power of steel as
compared with general commodities, we obtain interesting results. ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"If it is laid out in commodities, it will give employment to the ... If you have
a certain value laid out against fresh commodities in the one case, ..."
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