(n.) 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.
(n.) A parcel or quantity of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(2) Andreas Missbach, managing director of Berne Declaration, an NGO in Switzerland where the commodities giant is based, said Glencore stood out against others in the sector.
(3) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(4) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(5) The financial crash caused by treating housing as a speculative commodity made things worse, but the truth is that the seeds of the crisis have been sown over many years.
(6) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(7) Others are new: changing family compositions because of HIV, increasing frequency of droughts and rapid fluctuations in international commodity prices.
(8) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(9) Part of the new wealth has been driven by the rise in commodity prices.
(10) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(11) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
(12) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(13) Right now, policymakers will probably be more concerned by stalling eurozone growth than a headline inflation figure dragged down by commodity prices.
(14) Often a number of aids such as standing table, adapted chairs, commode etc., is required to meet basic needs.
(15) Tate & Lyle, which no longer produces the sugar that made it a household name, is the latest company to be affected by falling commodity prices.
(16) "When you transform a food into a commodity, there's inevitable breakdown in social relations and high environmental cost," as Tanya Kerssen, an analyst for Oakland-based Food First told Time last year.
(17) The Financial Services Authority fined the bank £59.9m, while in the US the department of justice and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission also imposed fines, some £230m combined.
(18) Solitude becomes a way of life and social interaction a scarce commodity for many chronic schizophrenics who are in institutional settings.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) The commodities supercycle is dead in the water … It’s already sent some big African sub-Saharan economies into a tailspin,” said Aly Khan Satchu, an independent trader in Nairobi.
Fiat
Definition:
(n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
(n.) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
(n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thanks to the utterly useless Gordon Brown, we're apparently all going to be so broke we'll have to drive a Fiat 500.
(2) Car sales are expected to drop across the industry this year: Fiat Chrysler has canceled all of its compact and midsize sedans and American automakers are bracing for a leaner 2017 after setting records in 2016.
(3) There is talk of putting Corbynistas into some of the key positions on the national executive: that would do nothing but give a veneer of accountability to leadership fiat.
(4) Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler's tax avoidance deals to be ruled illegal Read more It comes a week after Facebook revealed it paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014 .
(5) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
(6) Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler, objected to comparisons of Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler, suggesting that conflating the two was evidence of a different kind of unlawful emission: Anyone who compares Fiat to VW “is smoking illegal material,” Marchionne told Reuters.
(7) Ultimately it depends on the funder whether they are content with the transaction, yet it is undeniably part of a music culture using a decreasing amount of fiat money, and could further casualise music-making.
(8) Stringent adherence to US money-laundering regulations (though based in Tokyo, it belonged to a US company, Mutum Sigillum LLC) meant it was significantly harder to sell bitcoins on the site (that is, converting them into a “fiat”currency such as dollars) than to buy them (swapping dollars for bitcoins).
(9) But a decade later, buffeted by oil shocks and rising industrial militancy, and weakened by strategic errors, Fiat stood on the verge of bankruptcy.
(10) In charge of brand production at Fiat, he has been in the headlines in recent months as the carmaker tries to revamp its line of models and turn around its sagging fortunes.
(11) It is clear that the Volkswagen diesel debacle prompted regulators to more closely scrutinize all diesels and obviously they noticed some issues with Fiat Chrysler.” The EPA is working in conjunction with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on its citation of Fiat Chrysler.
(12) The ruling has sweeping implications, because documented compliance with a tax system no longer guarantees a corporation that it is safe if that system is not operating properly: both Fiat and Starbucks will now likely face bills for past underpayments.
(13) They require, unusually, the fiat of the attorney general.
(14) New diesel cars from Renault , Nissan, Hyundai, Citroen, Fiat, Volvo and other manufacturers have been found to emit substantially higher levels of pollution when tested in more realistic driving conditions, according to new data seen by the Guardian.
(15) In 1975 a worker at the car firm Fiat went to an auction of lost property organised by the Italian national railway in Turin.
(16) Newer restaurants worth checking out for an expert take on traditional ingredients include Ristorante Consorzio , while cultural attractions range from the Museo Egizio – for one of the biggest collection of Egyptian artefacts in Europe – to the converted Lingotto Fiat Factory , which featured in the Italian Job.
(17) Fiat made a valiant attempt to export cars to China, but the excursion stalled once Beijing's newly rich spotted the showrooms for Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
(18) Another critic pointed out that the mayor’s agenda lacked any mention of industry, even though Turin is the longtime home of carmakers Fiat and Alfa Romeo and is considered Italy’s industrial heartland.
(19) The European commission is investigating Luxembourg following allegations it effectively subsidised Amazon and a subsidiary of Fiat.
(20) He turned up at Kettering in his Fiat Punto, played out of position on the right of midfield and worked tirelessly.