commodities and materials
1Commodities exchange — The floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, a major commodities exchange in the United States. A commodities exchange is an exchange where various commodities and derivatives products are traded. Most commodity markets across the world trade in… …
2materials handling — the loading, unloading, and movement of goods, as within a factory or warehouse, esp. by the aid of mechanical devices. [1920 25] * * * the movement of raw goods from their native site to the point of use in manufacturing, their subsequent… …
3commodities — I noun articles, articles of commerce, articles of merchandise, articles of trade, assets, chattels, goods, holdings, items, merchandise, merx, movables, objects, possessions, produce, produced materials, products, properties, raw materials, res …
4United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Energy, Science and Technology — U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Energy, Science, and Technology is one of five subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.JurisdictionThis subcommittee has jurisdiction over legislation involving… …
5Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
6TRADE AND COMMERCE — In the Bible The geopolitical location of Palestine, set as it is in the heart of the Fertile Crescent, made it a pivotal link in the commercial activities carried on by land and sea between, on the one hand, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula in… …
7Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …
8U.S. Customs and Border Protection — Abbreviation CBP Patch of CBP …
9Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement — ▪ 2006 Introduction Trials of former heads of state, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on eminent domain and the death penalty, and high profile cases against former executives of large corporations were leading legal and criminal issues in 2005.… …
10U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — Abbreviation ICE ICE is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security …
