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Commodification

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verb (used with object), com·mod·i·fied, com·mod·i·fy·ing.

to turn into a commodity; make commercial.

to treat as if a commodity.

Also, com·mod·i·tize.

Related forms

com·mod·i·fi·a·ble, adjective

com·mod·i·fi·ca·tion, noun

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The commodification of artists and writers may be off-putting, but it's neither new nor all that deplorable.

They're linguistic signifiers stuffed with commodification and infested by interpretation.

Other articles railed against the empty commodification of culture politics.

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commodify (kəˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ)

—vb , -fies, -fying, -fied
	(tr) to treat (something) inappropriately as if it can be acquired or marketed like other commodities: you can't commodify art

commodifi'cation

—n

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commodification

1968, from commodity. Originally in Marxist political theory, "the assignment of a market value," typically to something the user feels ought not to have one.

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