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Definition of Commodify
1. Verb. To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commodify
1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commodify
Literary usage of Commodify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Improving Recycling Markets by Oecd, OECD. (2006)
"... of market counterparts Transaction costs Development of standardised contracts,
waste quality grading schemes which "commodify" heterogeneous materials, ..."
2. Truth and Consequences of the Genetic Revolution": Human Genetic Research edited by Lisa M. Matocq (2000)
"Such technologies may also commodify children, harming them in subtle and not so
subtle ways. Use of genetic and reproductive technology to produce ..."
3. Community Policing: Comparative Aspects of Community Oriented Police Work by Dieter Dölling, Thomas Feltes (1993)
"Professions are driven to carve out new specializations, to commodify their
expertise in mass marketed products, and to refine mechanisms of self-regulation ..."
4. Hume and Smollett's Celebrated History of England, from Its First Settlement by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett, John Robinson (1831)
"... destroyed a large quantity of tea at Boston, and obliged ships laden with the
same commodify to return from other places without landing their cargoes. ..."
5. Knowledge, Curriculum and Qualifications for South African Further Education by Michael Young, Jeanne Gamble, Human Sciences Research Council (2007)
"... and by Allyson Pollock (2005) for health, is that the attempt to commodify
education by equating it with outcomes is ultimately counterproductive. ..."
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