commodification

noun
/kəˌmɒ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/UK/kəˌmɑ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/US

Etymology

From commodify + -ification.

Definitions

  1. The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.

    • Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
    • Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
  2. The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a…

    The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for commodification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA