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.
LOCKDOWN
lockdown
(noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lockdown (countable and uncountable, plural lockdowns)
The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g. in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g. in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or pandemic, etc.
(US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.
Source: Wiktionary
Lock"-down`, n.
Definition: A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen. [U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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