commodifyv.
/kəˈmɒdᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /kəˈmɑdəˌfaɪ/ transitive. To treat (a person or thing) as property which can be traded, or whose value is purely monetary; to treat as or turn into a commodity. Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. commodified adj.
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1976 Contemp. Lit. 17 387 Absurdist critics simply push the impulse to commodify everything to its logical—and absurd—conclusion.
1989 ELH 56 532 Restoration theater participated in the phallic economy that commodified women..in the mistress market.
1992 Sight & Sound July 36/3 The pervasiveness of this publishing strategy can be gauged by a comparison between the old academic slogan ‘publish or perish’ and its newer version ‘commodify or die’.
2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year li. 341 Valentine's Day is yet another example of how the market commodifies socio-sexual relationships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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