marketable commodity

collocation in English

meaningsofmarketableandcommodity

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marketable
adjective
uk
/ˈmɑː.kɪ.tə.bəl/us
/ˈmɑːr.kɪ.t̬ə.bəl/
Marketable products or skills are easy to sell because a lot of people ...
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commodity
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈmɒd.ə.ti/us
/kəˈmɑː.də.t̬i/
a substance or product that can be traded, bought, ...
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(Definition ofmarketableandcommodityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore, early-season grain legumes providing amarketablecommoditymay be preferred in a double cropping sequence.
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Therefore, they logically choose to produce what they perceive as the mostmarketablecommodity.
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Dealing with healthcare as amarketablecommodityinstead of a public service is unacceptable.
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They are not adoptable, but have been taken from their parents because they are considered to be amarketablecommodity.
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The product of the planting of yesterday is potentially amarketablecommoditytoday.
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Surely, by definition, care is not amarketablecommodity.
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They are treating it as amarketablecommodity.
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Certainly, scandal of people in public positions is amarketablecommodity.
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Barley has not proved to be a readilymarketablecommoditysince the last harvest, but the weather conditions may have had some bearing upon that.
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Where it is only a question of a year or so, it would not be a verymarketablecommodity.
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All their products arrive properly packaged and prepared, and it is a verymarketablecommodity.
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They want to turn it into amarketablecommodity, as they have tried to do with the rest of the economy.
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Again, tithe has been amarketablecommodityfor years.
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Meat is nowhere near being such amarketablecommodityas wheat or potatoes.
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It is an easy crop to harvest and, given fine weather conditions and reasonable moisture content, should turn out to be amarketablecommodity, although a low-priced one.
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Should houses be amarketablecommodity?
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Although one may say this is analogous to a notional lifetime lease, the plain fact is that it is not a lease and it is not amarketablecommodity.
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Genius, alas, is not amarketablecommodity.
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Energy is not amarketablecommoditylike any other!
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It may be amarketablecommodityat the best price to the landlord but it is the central point in the life of a man or woman.
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