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commodity meat

noun

Etymology

From commodity + meat.

  1. derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to drip, ooze; grease, fat”
  2. inherited from *matiz✻ — “food”
  3. inherited from *mati✻
  4. inherited from mete
  5. inherited from mete
  6. compounded as commodity meat — “commodity + meat”

Definitions

  1. Meat that is produced and distributed on an industrial scale, and can be bought and sold…

    Meat that is produced and distributed on an industrial scale, and can be bought and sold on the commodity markets.

    • Swift and Wilson are both attacking the problem of commodity meat head on.
    • In 1987, when the pathogen was discovered in commodity meat, causing four deaths in two institutions in Utah, the USDA decided that the meat need not be sampled or recalled, because it was "safe" if "cooked properly" […]
    • Yet despite aggressive advertisements claiming the uniqueness of specific brands of commodity meats, the identities of commodity producers remain anonymous to the consumer […]

  2. Meat distributed through the USDA commodity food distribution program.

    • I have used my last can of commodity meat.
    • Always the cheese, peanut butter, and rice from the commodity program. Or commodity meat — chicken, beef, pork — fried in a heavy iron skillet.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for commodity meat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA