Each of these fields can be divided into a group that "regards the land as soil, and its function as commodity-production," and a group that "regards the land as a biota, and its function as something broader" (Leopold [1949], 221).
When used for commercial transactions, they functioned as commodity money, as a tradable commodity whose value differed from place to place, often as a result of difficulties in transport, and which was vulnerable to incurable inflation if more efficient transport or "goldrush" behavior appeared.
We define commodities as origin-destination pairs of terminals.
Avoid social functions as necessary.
Consumer technology, both hardware and software, functions as a commodity, priced per pixel or per gigabyte.
And few commodities are as volatile.
Companies that make basic materials from commodities rose as traders anticipated continued price increases for commodities.
The news stirred up Hong Kong's commodities stocks as well.
Obviously for a commodity to function as money it's got to have certain properties.
You know, they were accepted as commodities.
