Word Meanings - COMMODITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

Additional info about word: COMMODITY

1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker. 2. That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold , -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc. 3. A parcel or quantity of goods. A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. Shak.

Related words: (words related to COMMODITY)

• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• PROFIT
  1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• COMMODIOUSNESS
  State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.
• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• PROFITING
  Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.
• COMMODITY
  1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.
• ACCOMMODATION
  1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
• SUFFERING
  The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.
• BENEFITER
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• ADVANTAGEABLE
  Advantageous.
• SUFFERANCE
  souffrance, L. sufferentia, from sufferens, -entis, p.pr. of 1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak. 2. Pain endured;
• INTEREST
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in
• INTERESTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being interested; selfishness. Richardson.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• UNPROFIT
  Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• INSUFFERABLY
  In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
• CO-SUFFERER
  One who suffers with another. Wycherley.
• INCONVENIENCE
  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies
• SELF-INTERESTED
  Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.