commodity

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage.
• noun A product or service that is indistinguishable from ones manufactured or provided by competing companies and that therefore sells primarily on the basis of price rather than quality or style.
• noun Archaic Advantage; benefit.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Accommodation; convenience; suitableness; commodiousness.
• noun Profit; advantage; interest.
• noun That which is useful; anything that is useful, convenient, or serviceable; particularly, an article of merchandise; anything movable that is a subject of trade or of acquisition.
• noun Distribution of wares; parcel; supply.
• noun Synonyms Merchandise, Goods, etc.
• noun See property.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.
• noun That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
• noun obsolete A parcel or quantity of goods.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun economics Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
• noun marketing Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
• noun Marxism Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun articles of commerce