1 Water was another commodity enthusiastically offered to the parade-watchers. 2  Definitely. 3  The Cannery Row project will make you a hot commodity around here. 4  Information was obviously a free commodity in this area.
present-day-belonging to the present time; contemporary leaders. contemporary. current-occurring in or belonging to the present time; current events; the current topic; current negotiations; current psychoanalytic theories; the ship's current position.
Modern history, also referred to as the modern period or the modern era, is the historiographical approach to the timeframe after the post-classical era (known as the Middle Ages).odern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary history is the span of historic events that are immediately relevant to the present time.