English-French translations for commodity

• bien
  L'information est un bien social. Information is a social commodity.
  L'énergie est-elle un "bien commun" ou une simple marchandise ? Is energy a 'common asset' or just a commodity?
  Il s'agit de bien d'autres matières premières et pays producteurs de matières premières. It concerns many other commodities and commodity-dependent countries.
• bien de consommation courante
• marchandise
  Le corps humain n'est pas une marchandise. The human body is not a commodity.
  Le travail reste une marchandise. . (NL) Labour is still a commodity.
  Les soins de santé ne devraient pas être une marchandise. Healthcare should not be a commodity.
• matière première
• produit
  La vie de l'homme n'est pas un produit de consommation. Human life is not a consumable commodity.
  Pour finir, comme nous le savons, la musique n'est pas un produit de base. Finally, as we know, music is not a commodity.
  Le sucre pourrait bien devenir un produit de plus en plus stratégique. Sugar may increasingly become a strategic commodity.

Definition of commodity

• Anything movable that is bought and sold.
• Something useful or valuable.
• Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges
• Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products
• Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value
• self-interest|Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.

Examples

• The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in Worlds many commodities exchanges
• Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity

Related words

• commodity market
• commodity fetishism
• commodity exchange
• commodity price
• commodity bundle
• commodity expert
• commodity producer
• commodity research
• commodity researcher