Com-mōd'i-ty, n.
n. [Fr. commodité, Pr. comoditat, Sp. comodidad, Pg. commodidade, It. comodità, Lat. commoditas. See COMMODE.]
Sense 1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.]
Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.
Sense 2. That which affords ease, convenience, or advantage, especially in commerce, including every thing movable that is bought and sold—goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, &c.
Commodities are movables, valuable by money, the common measure. Locke.