commodification
See also: commoditize
English
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Etymology
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English commodify
English -ification
English commodification
From commodify + -ification.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˌmɒ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˌmɑ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]commodification (countable and uncountable, plural commodifications)
- The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
- Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
- 2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change:
- Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
- 2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
- Synonym: commoditization
- 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.
Usage notes
[edit]Sometimes used interchangeably with commoditization (sense 2), and sometimes distinguished to have a sense of “non-commercial good becoming commercial” (sense 1); see commoditize § Usage notes.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-
- English terms suffixed with -ification
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱe
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *med-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱóm
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