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noun (commodit, ies)

Anything movable that is bought and sold.

- 1995, James G. Carrier, Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700, p.122http://books.google.com/books?id=7BwbwuPyLccC&pg=PA122&dq=commodities+shopping&sig=dozEQAUipFYsEyUTkKpSqKbSCqk
- :If a key part of shopping is the conversion of anonymous commodities into possessions, shopping is a cultural as much as an economic activity.
- 2001, Rachel Pain, Introducing Social Geographies, p. 26 http://books.google.com/books?id=FVb2cfVpST8C&pg=PA26&dq=commodities+shopping&sig=OhV4OSNFSU9DE2-UdUBQsFosh5Y
- : In human geography "commodities" usually refers to goods and services which are bought and sold. The simplest commodities are those produced by the production system just before they are sold.
- 2005, William Leiss, Botterill, Jacki, Social Communication in Advertising: Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace, p.307 http://books.google.com/books?id=R_ELAoKRDb4C&pg=PA307&dq=commodities+shopping&sig=AyH9Brabe3RC16bitD6AOsfSfPw
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- Referring to the work of Bourdieu, Zukin (2004,38) notes that shopping is much more than the purchase of commodities
  1. (rfv-sense) Anything useful in daily life.
  2. Undifferentiated goods of low value.

Translations:

French: produit , bien

Etymology: commoditee < commoditee, from commoditat, commoditas.

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