COMMODITIES MARKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commodities market mean? 

• COMMODITIES MARKET (noun)
  The noun COMMODITIES MARKET has 1 sense:

1. an exchange for buying and selling commodities for future delivery

  Familiarity information: COMMODITIES MARKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMODITIES MARKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exchange for buying and selling commodities for future delivery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

commodities exchange; commodities market; commodity exchange

Hypernyms ("commodities market" is a kind of...):

exchange (a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members)

Meronyms (parts of "commodities market"):

pit ((commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commodities market"):

forward market; futures exchange; futures market (a commodity exchange where futures contracts are traded)

spot market (a market in which a commodity is bought or sold for immediate delivery or delivery in the very near future)