Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
DISSERVICE
disservice, ill service, ill turn
(noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly; “he did them a disservice”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
disservice (countable and uncountable, plural disservices)
Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
Verb
disservice (third-person singular simple present disservices, present participle disservicing, simple past and past participle disserviced)
To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*serv"ice, n. Etym: [Pref. dis- + service: cf. F. desservice.]
Definition: Injury; mischief. We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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18 May 2025
OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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