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Commutative \({\ell}\)-groups G (in which for all \({x, y \in G, xy = yx}\)) were studied long ago. This was then generalized to the study of \({\ell}\)-groups G in which for a given integer n and for all \({x, y \in G, x^{n}y^{n} = y^{n}x^{n}}\). It was then discovered that if for all \({x, y \in G}\), both \({x^{n}y^{n} = y^{n}x^{n}}\) and \({x^{m}y^{m} = y^{m}x^{m}}\) for two different integers m, n, then also \({x^{d}y^{d} = y^{d}x^{d}}\), where d is the greatest common divisor of m, n. We will now generalize this to consider an \({\ell}\)-group G in which for two fixed integers \({m, n, x^{m}y^{n} = y^{n}x^{m}}\) for all \({x, y \in G}\). Then we will generalize this to a set of more than two integers. Finally, we will consider an even more general situation where one or both of the exponents are not fixed. Key words and phrases lattice-ordered group variety commutativity