commodityism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]commodityism (uncountable)
- The adoption of special legislation for specific commodities such as cotton or tobacco.
- 1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Long-range Agricultural Policy and Program, volumes 1-2, page 353:
- I do not want to raise the question of sectionalism or commodityism in this committee, but I am afraid the soundness of these loans to our basic commodities is becoming in ill repute in some sections of the country because of their use.
- 1959, Roland Eugene Richter, The American Farm Bureau and the New Deal, page 35:
- "Commodityism" was not eradicated by any single measure of the Farm Bureau in the thirties. It continued as a recurrent problem.