noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bond/currency/commodity etc trader
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To the surprise of many Wall Street traders, the dollar rose yesterday.
commodity
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Water is a precious commodity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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But it was a reminder the supply of agricultural commodities at reasonable prices could not be guaranteed in the short-term.
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For Cargill, one of the leading agricultural and commodity companies, the problem was entirely different.
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That cost the country the proceeds of a tobacco harvest and the income from other agricultural commodities .
basic
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I.B.C. trades worldwide buying and selling basic commodities such as timber, coal and cement.
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Most arable farmers are nothing more than basic commodity producers.
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In the transportation field, taxis and the most basic commodity of all, fuel, are based on unit cost prices.
composite
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We must also give some consideration to composite commodities .
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Thus the composite commodity of taking part in skiing is larger than the package holiday.
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In the same way as we talk about the composite commodity of sport, we can also refer to the composite price.
important
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Crude oil is the world's most important commodity and crude oil is priced in dollars.
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Jade, which was recovered from the river when its reflection was seen in the moonlight, was an important commodity .
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Time Time is another critically important commodity .
other
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But follow the financial columns and you realise this club will be bought and sold, like any other worthwhile commodity .
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These ships in return bring coals and lime-stone and many other commodities .
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In contrast to other commodities , metal futures contracts remain open at their original prices until their respective prompt dates.
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Do they ever take an interest in the increased prices Ulster people endure on food and other commodities compared to the mainland?
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A similar argument holds for any other commodity we try to tax.
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Moves towards free markets for farm produce and other commodities were firmly rejected.
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Boats were able to sail from the river Humber into the village carrying fish and other commodities .
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The demand for health care, it is argued, is similar to the demand for any other commodity .
particular
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Thus the healthy growth of a particular commodity - in this case steel - actually caused a closure.
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In a competitive market the bargaining power of the owner of a particular commodity is limited.
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All they needed was water to reconstitute them and there was definitely going to be no shortage of that particular commodity .
petty
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In other words, it seemed that as petty commodity traders these marketwomen were often unable even to reproduce their present conditions.
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Marx himself might have viewed these small-scale marketers as resembling petty commodity producers more than petty capitalists.
precious
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Zygotes are intrinsically more difficult-yet efficiency clearly has to be much higher, for zygotes are precious commodities .
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Sugar was considered a precious commodity .
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Breath, energy and time are precious commodities for Mr McTear.
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I had, in effect, convinced her that television was a precious commodity .
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For everyone energy is limited, a precious commodity .
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Hope is the most precious commodity of all.
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Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West.
primary
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Nearly all exported products were primary commodities such as palm oil and cocoa, or copper and gold.
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In 1986 alone, primary commodity prices fell sharply by an average of nine percent.
rare
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Separate offices for quiet work are a rare commodity .
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Maleness is a rather rare commodity at this stage.
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Hydrogen sulphide was probably a relatively rare commodity , even in ancient times.
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A lighter is a rare commodity here.
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Luck is a rare commodity but the harder a manager works the more he has of it.
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Their whistles give them power, a rare commodity among revolutionaries.
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When the new shops open, they also have that all too rare mainland commodity - customers - and plenty of them.
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But honesty is a rare commodity , especially in dreamland.
relative
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Hence relative scale-adjusted commodity prices and relative factor rewards provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade.
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In particular, size differences can lead to differences in relative factor rewards and scale-adjusted relative commodity prices.
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It remains therefore to consider relative commodity prices and relative factor rewards.
scarce
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Soap was a scarce commodity but he as doctor had priority.
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The scarcest commodity within the firm was, quite simply, time.
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Movie cameras have become a scarce commodity .
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But what about other planets, where water may be a scarce commodity ?
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The scarcer the commodity - eg accountancy - the more the applicant will exercise his power of selection.
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Water is becoming a scarce and expensive commodity and the supply industry is now big business.
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That may be true of land-a scarce commodity on a small island-but what about pay?
valuable
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And get the most valuable commodity of all.
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In the battle for human empathy that preceded the real conflict, they were the most valuable commodity .
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With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
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Time, as you will agree, is the most valuable commodity that we possess.
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So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry.
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Time is one of our most valuable commodities .
■ NOUN
broker
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International commodities broker Ian Spiro, 46, is still missing.
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Their punkish stance is probably a put-on: doubtless their dads are commodities brokers .
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A firm of commodity brokers sought advice from a computer consultant on the installation of a computer system.
business
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But making tyres is a commodity business in which economies of scale matter a lot.
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But government bond trading throughout Wall Street has become more of a commodity business .
culture
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Within commodity culture , that which is specific to photography interacts extensively with broader political and cultural issues.
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If we look at other photographic genres, we can also observe the way in which commodity culture has affected their development.
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Such is the force of commodity culture that a tasteful logo and unconnected image can sell clothes around the world.
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Therefore this chapter will concentrate on the way photography has been used in representing commodity culture .
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In this sense, from the very beginning, photographs were employed to induce desire and promote commodity culture .
exchange
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Other commodity exchanges said they would keep normal hours.
export
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The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon, the principal export commodity .
market
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The bargaining processes within the Defence commodity market are often described in the media and in Parliament as vicious inter-Service infighting.
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A couple of wrong moves in the commodities market put his back against the wall.
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Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same forcemajeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market .
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The drives business is becoming a commodity market as most manufacturers produce devices with similar technology.
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They may not be rich, but they do lead dignified, autonomous lives off the rollercoaster of the commodity markets .
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Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market.
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Even the lighter stories tended to be along the lines of parrots who played the commodities market .
price
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The fall in commodity prices means that Third World countries must produce more to earn the same amount.
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In particular, size differences can lead to differences in relative factor rewards and scale-adjusted relative commodity prices .
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Just occasionally, however, the commodity price movements provided a window of opportunity to relax the highly protectionist policies.
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It remains therefore to consider relative commodity prices and relative factor rewards.
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After falling throughout 1989, commodity prices rallied in the first part of 1990.
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However, the fall was due more to commodity price rises and the strength of the dollar than any concerted national effort.
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But developing countries are still dependent for all their foreign currency earnings upon the fluctuations of commodity prices on the world market.
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There is always the chance, he says, that 1992 will produce record yields, and high commodity prices .
producer
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Their prices might fall, hurting commodity producers .
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Marx himself might have viewed these small-scale marketers as resembling petty commodity producers more than petty capitalists.
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Most arable farmers are nothing more than basic commodity producers .
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When prices fall, commodity producers can maintain profitability by cutting costs or increasing output.
production
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The rich world keeps the South wedded to commodity production by putting up tariff barriers to manufactured goods.
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And: Value emerges when we have true commodity production .
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Individual nuclear family units not only provide the maximum number of outlets for commodity production , but also facilitate social control.
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But there are then crucially different phases of commodity production .
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And since capitalist commodity production is spontaneous - that is, unplanned social production, they are anarchic.
trader
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And Mr Hemsley is first and foremost a producer-not a commodity trader .
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In other words, it seemed that as petty commodity traders these marketwomen were often unable even to reproduce their present conditions.
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They needed an internal phone system that ensured fast and reliable communications between their commodity traders across the world.
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That system ended when Gutfreund sold the firm to Phillips Brothers, the commodities trader , in 1981.
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Berg traded in commodities and provided finance for other commodity traders .
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The Arabs had severed relations with Salomon when it had merged with the commodity traders Phillips Brothers.
■ VERB
become
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Movie cameras have become a scarce commodity .
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And, in greater detail, he tells how rock became a mere commodity in the billion-dollar music industry.
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The drives business is becoming a commodity market as most manufacturers produce devices with similar technology.
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But government bond trading throughout Wall Street has become more of a commodity business.
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Silk, jade and spices became valued commodities .
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Networks shift privacy from the realm of morals to the marketplace; privacy becomes a commodity .
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Like almost everything else, adventure, danger and even death have now become commodities .
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Management, too, has become a commodity that is bought and sold like any other commodity in the marketplace.
buy
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We buy Third World commodities for a song.
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They stock up on financial assets such as government bonds, and the government realizes profits by spending its borrowings on buying commodities .
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The rich world can now buy more Third World commodities at very low prices.
produce
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For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market.
sell
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The co-operatives were responsible for selling any over-produced commodity on the world market and this could be difficult.
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Management, too, has become a commodity that is bought and sold like any other commodity in the marketplace.
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Nevertheless, many Third World countries still rely heavily on selling raw material commodities as their principal source of income.
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Their activities result from decisions to produce, to buy, and to sell commodities and resources.
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Today many Third World countries remain dependent on selling their commodities to the West.
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In advertising terms, we are selling a commodity .
trade
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Berg traded in commodities and provided finance for other commodity traders.
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His pastimes became trading commodities on the futures market and collecting butterflies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lighter is a rare commodity here.
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But divinity is a fragile commodity .
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Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.
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He might want her as a doctor, but as a woman, it seemed, she was a disposable commodity .
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Most alarmingly, the show suggests that industrialism, valuing commodities above itself, promoted a ghoulish worship of death.
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Of course many programmes of regional co-operation exist, but unlike oil most Third World commodities are no longer essential to the West.
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Other commodity exchanges said they would keep normal hours.