(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.
Provision
Definition:
(n.) The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
(n.) That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.
(n.) Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural.
(n.) That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.
(n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
(n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
(v. t.) To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the provision of dental care showed significant differences, with the handicapped children receiving less restorative treatment.
(2) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(3) It was designed to ensure that the institute remained the leading international centre in its field, officials said, and would not affect the provision of core services or student supervision.
(4) It is argued that the provision of accurate and useful probabilistic assessments of future events should be a fundamental task for biostatisticians collaborating in clinical or experimental medicine, and we explore two aspects of obtaining and evaluating such predictions.
(5) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(6) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(7) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(8) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
(9) However, a variety of policy initiatives were introduced both to restructure National Health Service (NHS) expenditure, and to facilitate private provision of health services.
(10) This can only be achieved by a well prepared and equipped team dedicated to provision of this care.
(11) Provision of breast feeding education, along with improved maternal nutrition, extension of maternity leave, and availability of nurseries at the work place, may sustain a longer period of breast feeding.
(12) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
(13) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
(14) Since group therapy and sensory stimulation over a relatively short period can result in clinical and testable improvement, the diagnosis of "chronic brain syndrome" in the elderly should not be allowed to preclude the provision of appropriate psychiatric therapy.
(15) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
(16) In 2013, documents leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden revealed an internal NSA rule that Senator Ron Wyden has called the “backdoor search provision”, for instance.
(17) Alternatives in financing medical care services currently under debate include various provisions to control costs and utilization, but attention should be directed to organizing American medical care services in general, toward the more rational use of our resources.
(18) Conical root shapes without special provision of retention are not suitable.
(19) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(20) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.