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.
PROBATIONARY
probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative
(adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; “probationary employees”; “a provisional government”; “just a tentative schedule”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
probationary (comparative more probationary, superlative most probationary)
Of, pertaining to, or subject to probation
Noun
probationary (plural probationaries)
An employee who is still in their probationary period.
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*ba"tion*a*ry a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ELLIPSE
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
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