The word 'commodity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that can be bought and sold, such as agricultural products, natural resources, or manufactured goods. For example, "The country exports a wide range of commodities, including iron, steel, and aluminum."
Time is a commodity Liverani did not receive at Genoa, although he believes the experience made him stronger.
Peru's economy expanded more than any other during the decade of high commodity prices, led by its mining industry.
We want people to fall in love with tea so we have recipes, images of farms and films about farms; it's really to make them feel that tea is relevant in their lives rather than just a commodity".
Fitzpatrick said he was "somewhat confused by looking at the explanations for the price rises over the past three or four weeks because we do not see really the same impact, especially in wholesale commodity prices.
The combination of record commodity prices, hundreds of billions of dollars of capital flowing to Australia to build hundreds of new mines, and some of the highest interest rates in the world led to the highest exchange rate in modern history.
"You only get one chance to pollinate over 1 quadrillion kernels," said Bill Lapp, president of Advanced Economic Solutions, a Omaha-based commodity consulting firm: "There's always some level of angst at this time of year, but it's significantly greater now and with good reason.
Apart from Amec and 3i, commodity stocks are among the other major fallers as metal prices paused for breath after yesterday's rises.
Thus Bacon's work becomes just another highly priced commodity and, since if you only had $142m you wouldn't spend it all on one picture, a spectacular demonstration that there's a lot more where that came from.
Fortunately it didn't take long for me to get over my telephobia, and within a few months of working in a wide variety of roles (well, about as wide as the remit of admin will allow) my office skills had advanced significantly, and I had become something of a commodity in the temping world.
I know that we're challenged by falling commodity prices and the iron ore price does infiltrate the Australian economy – but it's an idea worth considering, it's not one that I'm expert upon so I'll leave it to the iron ore producers".
But a decline in commodity prices and a slowdown in the rate of China's growth will sap Latin America's expansion, the bank predicts, making it difficult "to expand the social gains amassed over the economic boom over the past decade".
