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.
SUBDUCT
Etymology
Verb
subduct (third-person singular simple present subducts, present participle subducting, simple past and past participle subducted)
(transitive) To push under or below.
(intransitive) To move downwards underneath something.
(rare) To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard.
Anagrams
• bus duct
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*duce", Sub*duct", v. t. Etym: [L. subducere, subductum; sub under + ducere to lead, to draw. See Duke, and cf. Subdue.]
1. To withdraw; to take away. Milton.
2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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