Meaning of commodification | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
   countable, uncountable
2. The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization”

“Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.”

“One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history.”

“A company that innovates to achieve the commercialization of a technology often must shift strategy some decades later in response to the advent of that technology's commodification.”

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