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Exportation :: Exportation (n.) Commodity exported; an export.

Staple :: Staple (n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States..

Commodity :: Commodity (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc..

Reexport :: Reexport (n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.

Commodity :: Commodity (n.) Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

Monopoly :: Monopoly (n.) The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product..

Bag :: Bag (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee..

Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum..

Excisable :: Excisable (a.) Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity..

Ascertain :: Ascertain (v. t.) To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal..

Discommodity :: Discommodity (n.) Disadvantage; inconvenience.

Barter :: Barter (v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck..

Operator :: Operator (n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.

Drug :: Drug (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand..

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Export :: Export (n.) That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports..

Bin :: Bin (n.) A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin..

Prig :: Prig (v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.

Movable :: Movable (n.) An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture..

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