commodify

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To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value
{f} turn something into a commodity, make something into merchandise
To make something into a commodity, a commercial product that can be used to make a profit, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value
commodification
The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless

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

Commodification
Commodification or commoditization is the transformation of what is normally a non-commodity into a commodity, or, in other words, to assign value. As the word commodity has distinct meanings in business and in Marxist theory, commodification has different meanings depending on the context
commodification
The action of turning something into or treating something as a mere commodity
commodification
{i} act of turning something into a commodity
commodification
To market the buying and selling of water rights from one region to another (e g rural water rights to municipalities)
commodification
Tendency to turn goods and services, even land and labor, into products for sale in market; used critically to describe loss of human qualities in capitalist production and exchange
commodification
Process whereby members of the audience are seen as commodities to be sold to advertisers
commodified
{s} made into a commodity, treated as something commercial
commodify
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