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Sundry vs Commodity - What's the difference?

sundry | commodity |

In obsolete terms the difference between sundry and commodity

is that sundry is individual; one for each while commodity is self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.

As an adjective sundry

is separate; distinct; diverse.

sundry

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Adjective

  • (obsolete) Separate; distinct; diverse.
  • (obsolete) Individual; one for each.
  • Several; diverse; more than one or two; various.
  • Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.

    • Synonyms

    * assorted, divers, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, heterogeneous

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (sundries)
  • (usually, in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item.
  • * 1865 , , Crosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane , page 16,
    • Here she kept her scarlet cloak, her Sunday shoes, her best cap and apron, and her steeple-crowned hat; but down at the very bottom, underneath her new checked petticoat, she found a little bag of sundries , which might serve her purpose, and which she sat down to examine at her leisure.
  • * 1924 March, Advertisement, , page 192,
    • Our big free catalog illustrates and describes parts, equipment and sundries that our more than a million riders may need.
  • * 1931 June, Advertisement, , page 54,
    • It pays you to buy from Bicycle Specialists We have been in business 40 years, and can offer you positively the lowest prices for high-grade bicycles, tires and sundries .
  • (in the plural, accounting) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.
  • * 1905 , William Mott Steuart (United States Bureau of the Census), Special Reports: Mines and quarries 1902 , page 476,
    • Miscellaheous expenses ,—This item includes rent and royalties of all descriptions, “taxes, insurance, interest, advertising, office supplies, law expenses, injuries and damages, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and all other sundries not reported elsewhere.”
  • * 1910 , William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin (United States Bureau of the Census), Street and Electric Railways 1907 , page 181,
    • In 1902 franchise values were largely carried as sundries , but it is a very common practice to charge these values to cost of construction and equipment.
  • * 2009 , Neville Box, VCE Accounting Units 3 & 4 , 4th Edition, unnumbered page,
    • Any payment listed in the Sundries column must be posted individually to the appropriate ledger account.
  • * 2011 , Robert Rodgers, Peter Lucas, Bookkeeping and Accounting Essentials , page 105,
    • The petty cash book classifies payments as petrol and oils, postage, office, sundries and GST paid.
  • (usually, in the plural, cricket, chiefly, Australia) An extra.
  • * 1954 , Percy Taylor, Richmond?s 100 years of cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854-1954 , unidentified page,
    • The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.
  • * 1998 , , The Art of Cricket , page 167,
    • In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.
  • * 1999 , Ashok Kumar, DPH Sports Series: Cricket , Discovery Publishing House, India, page 145,
    • As for sundries , these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.

    Related terms

    * all and sundry * various and sundry

    commodity

    English

    Alternative forms

    * commoditie (archaic )

    Noun

    (commodities)
  • (obsolete) Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
  • Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
  • * 1995 , James G. Carrier, Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700 , p.122
    • If a key part of shopping is the conversion of anonymous commodities into possessions, shopping is a cultural as much as an economic activity.
  • * 2001 , Rachel Pain, Introducing Social Geographies , p.26
    • In human geography "commodities'" usually refers to goods and services which are bought and sold. The simplest ' commodities are those produced by the production system just before they are sold.
  • * 2005 , William Leiss, Botterill, Jacki, Social Communication in Advertising: Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace , p.307
  • *:* Referring to the work of Bourdieu, Zukin (2004,38) notes that shopping is much more than the purchase of commodities
  • Something useful or valuable.
  • * 2008 , Jan. 14th, Somerset County Gazette
    • And Slade said: "It really makes me sad that football club chairmen and boards seem to have lost that most precious commodity - patience. "Sam's sacking at Newcastle had, I suppose, been on the cards for a while, but it is really ridiculous to fire a manager after such a short time.
  • (obsolete) Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.
  • *, I.40:
    • Shall we employ the intelligence Heaven hath bestowed upon us for our greatest good, to our ruine? repugning natures desseign and the universal order and vicissitude of things, which implieth that every man should use his instruments and meanes for his owne commoditie ?
  • *, NYRB, 2001, vol.1, p.321:
    • they commonly respect their own ends, commodity is the steer of all their action.
  • (economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
    • The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in World's many commodities exchanges.
  • (marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
    • Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity .
  • (Marxism) Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.