Learn English – Word for “item that can be bought or sold”

single-word-requests

I am looking for a single word like "product" but it means that it has monetary value and can be bought, sold, or traded. Specifically I'm trying to write about how Native Americans did not consider land something to be sold until Europeans came. I'd like to say

Native Americans did not consider land to be a _______ (sellable object)

If that's not possible, I could use an antonym instead:

Native Americans considered land to be a ________ (unsellable object)

The words I've thought of, product and commodity, don't quite work. "Product" implies something made, not sellable. "Commodity" connotes an agricultural product or raw material.

Best Answer

I'm no expert and I don't feel entitled to answering a question. But since no one has come up with these words, I propose:

property non-property

What concerns Native Americans about land is whether they own the land they live and use.

So it goes, Native Americans did not consider land to be (a) property.

Like it or not, if it's their idea that land is not synonymous with property, then I think that property can be rightly used in OP's sentence.

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