commodity

1. 1.

   articles of commerce

   Synonymstrade goodgood

   Broaderartifact

   Narrowerbasicconsumer goodsdrygoodsentrantexportfancy goodsfungiblefutureimportmerchandise

Other forms of commodity

plural

commodities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about commodity

What does commodity mean?

commodity means "articles of commerce".

How many syllables are in commodity?

commodity has 4 syllables: com-mo-di-ty. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /kəˈmɑdəti/.

What is another word for commodity?

Close synonyms include trade good, good. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commodity a common word?

commodity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.