basic commodity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandcommodity
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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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 ofbasicandcommodityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It has the duty of providing for the community thebasiccommodity, coal.
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Steel is abasiccommodityof the manufacturing economy, basic for construction and basic for any independent defence policy of these islands.
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Blankets are a prettybasiccommodityand it is sad that people have to appeal for them.
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I am not talking now of retail prices or the cost of living, butbasiccommodityprices for wheat, metals, and so on.
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What have these people, who are talking about needing thebasiccommodityof engineering—steel—done with the steel industry?
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We cannot have that situation without affecting the figures of the country's largest carrier of thisbasiccommodity.
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These people are faced with a major crisis every time abasiccommodityincreases in price.
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Butter is abasiccommodityin this country.
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The result is that we are rapidly running out of thisbasiccommodity.
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One cannot imagine any more distressing occurrence to disrupt normal family life than the loss of electricity, such is our dependence on thisbasiccommodity.
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While production is declining, world demand for thisbasiccommodityis increasing.
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Here we are deliberately raising the price of thisbasiccommodityand giving a most marked increase to the spiral of inflation.
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Steel is abasiccommodity, and the overvaluation of the pound is highly significant in terms of commodity prices.
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He went on to talk about the importance of the export of thisbasiccommodity.
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It seems to me somewhat indefensible that food prices are continually rising disproportionately higher than the price paid for thebasiccommodity.
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That cannot be an improvement for such abasiccommodityas electricity, which has hitherto—certainly since the war—been supplied by public service bodies.
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How out of balance things have become when abasiccommodityis priced at only a quarter of leisure products which we do not really need.
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Cereal is thebasiccommodityof agriculture.
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Whatever those failures have been, however, it is difficult to see how any firm could export abasiccommodityfor many years against that kind of exchange rate disadvantage.
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If an overseas supplier can enforce an increase of cost for abasiccommodity, the only result can be a lower standard of living in the country concerned.
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