John Buchanan Robinson

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

American Politician

Sting

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

British Musician

Edward de Bono

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

English Psychologist

Fatih Birol

I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.

Turkish Economist

Ian Gillan

I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.

English Musician

Kurt Vonnegut

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

American Writer

Khalid A. Al-Falih

I think that rational people in the world know that oil is a very important commodity for the rest of the world.

Saudi Arabian Public Servant

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.

Indian Politician

Henry Wotton

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

English Author

Edwin Louis Cole

American Author

Commodity implies items traded globally and influenced by market factors.

Trade Context

Certain commodities can indicate economic health, such as oil affecting inflation.

Economic Indicator

Commodities can represent non-material valuable items, like time or silence.

Value Perspective

In tech, commodity refers to standard features that aren't unique anymore.

Tech Features

In economics, commodities are often uniform and can replace each other.

Interchangeability

Prices of economic commodities can be subjects of speculation and investment.

Market Speculation

 They use this to capture as much air as they can to take down with them when they're diving, because when you dive, pressures increase, and that decreases the volume of air you have available. But more importantly, having that sack allows them to recycle the air that they're using, because air is a precious commodity.

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 means that the money in your wallet today will be worth less tomorrow, making you want to spend it right away. While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation.

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 and geopolitical factors. An earthquake, for example, can destroy the infrastructure needed to produce important commodities such as oil. That forces the supply side of the economy to charge more for products that use oil, discouraging demand and potentially prompting a recession.

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 and the other bees are attracted to it. So this really demonstrates our relationship with honeybees, and that goes deep back for thousands of years. We're very co-evolved, because we depend on bees for pollination and, even more recently, as an economic commodity.

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 And in regions where large-scale systems are unavailable, or where water has been contaminated further along its journey, these systems can mean the difference between life and death. Clean water remains a precious and often scarce commodity.

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 Capture this vapor, cool it down, and what’s left is liquid alcohol much more concentrated than any fermented beverage. At first, these stronger spirits were used for medicinal purposes. Then, spirits became an important trade commodity

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 believe they look a little bit different this is the earth our home planet and its nearest neighbor Mars the earth is a lush oasis in comparison to Mars and this is because we enjoy the luxury of life's most precious commodity water

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 It's risk and demand. For the big companies, it's reputational risk, but more importantly, they don't care what the price of commodities is. If they don't have commodities, they don't have a business. They care about availability,

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 that makes the journey possible. Many of these individuals work for low pay in dangerous conditions— and some aren’t paid at all. So while we might marvel at the global network behind this commodity,

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 number four pirate ships were rowdy boisterous vessels full of drunken rules when fresh water was a rare commodity and rum was the drink of choice things were bound to get a little wild