See Also: commodity exchange(encyclopedia)
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange(money)
London Commodity Exchange (LCE)(finance)
Malaysia Commodity Exchange(money)
London Commodity Exchange (LCE)(money)
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange(finance)
Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM)(money)
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pretentious (iou) and commodity exchange (sh)


pretentious (iou)



pretentious adjective. M19.
[French pretentieux, from pretention, formed as PRETENSION: see -IOUS.]
Making excessive or unwarranted claim to merit or importance; making an exaggerated outward show, ostentatious.
Dylan Thomas The pretentious palming off of doggerel..as 'arty' poetry is too much. J. Steinbeck An immaculate..house, grand enough, but not pretentious.
pretentiously adverb M19.
pretentiousness noun M19.

commodity exchange (sh)




Organized market for the purchase and sale of enforceable contracts to deliver a commodity (such as wheat, gold, or cotton) or a financial instrument (such as U.S. treasury bills) at some future date.

Such contracts are known as futures and are bought and sold in a competitive auction process on commodity exchanges (also called futures markets). The largest futures and futures-options exchange is the Chicago Board of Trade.