commodify

commodity +‎ -ify

commodify (third-person singular simple present commodifies, present participle commodifying, simple past and past participle commodified)

1. To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.
   • 2009 January 17, John R. MacArthur, “Hope as a commodity”, in Toronto Star‎:

     […] it's only in America that a lovely feeling such as hope can be commodified so expertly, so cynically.

Sometimes used interchangeably with commoditize, sometimes distinguished to have a sense of “non-commercial good becoming commercial”; see commoditize#Usage notes.

• commercialize
• commoditize

• commodification
• commodificational

• decommodify

• Commodification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia