rare commodity

collocation in English

meaningsofrareandcommodity

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rare
adjective
uk
/reər/
us
/rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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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 ofrareandcommodityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, because metal was ararecommodity, imported over long distances and created by specialists, it was likely very expensive.
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For decapods, this type of information is ararecommodity: the small number of studies that have been reported were all performed on commercially important macruran species.
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They need resources to train medical and social staff, notably community psychiatric nurses, a veryrarecommodity.
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It is expensive in money and it is expensive in thatrarecommodity, engineers.
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I know that it is ararecommoditythese days, but we have the right to expect it.
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Such frames, to my certain knowledge, are not by any means always sited on grass, because grass is ararecommodityin cities.
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However, the attention given to patients needing not acute care but that different andrarecommodity"tender loving care" appears to be less evident.
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It is a government who listen only to those who support them—and they are becoming ararecommodity.
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We refuse to consider employment as ararecommodityon the market of which we are difficult consumers.
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Intensive farming and pesticide use harm the soil and underground water supplies, pollute water and put at risk an increasinglyrarecommodity.
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We have a responsibility to future generations, however, not only to deal carefully with non-renewable natural resources, but also with thatrarecommodity, money.
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I would like to add that they are a reservoir of water, which will be ararecommodity.
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They will concentrate on private work or on thatrarecommodity, leisure.
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That is ararecommodityin these times, and one that some of us from time to time make an endeavour to contribute.
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Having the luxury of being true to oneself is ararecommodityin politics.
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Today who is not short of this most valuable andrarecommodity?
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Could we know what percentage of this figure is represented by clothing, and how much by tobacco and by soap, which is becoming ararecommodityin this country?
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Britain's capital is a veryrarecommodity, and we wish to see it well and carefully used.
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Such close cooperation is ararecommodity.
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I understand that iron ore is a veryrarecommoditynow; it is a commodity required in the manufacture of steel, and it is rather difficult to get.
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