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.
LIQUIDITY
liquidity
(noun) being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness
(noun) the property of flowing easily; “adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased”; “they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer”
liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state
(noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
liquidity (countable and uncountable, plural liquidities)
(finance) The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash
(uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.
(economics, countable) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
(finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
Antonyms
• illiquidity
Source: Wiktionary
Li*quid"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. liquiditas, fr. liquidus liquid: cf. F. liquidité.]
Definition: The state or quality of being liquid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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