Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To turn into or treat as a commodity; make commercial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make something into a
commodity , sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you EVER say "commodify" again I shall peel all your skin off and dunk you in a vat of salt!
Gandhi would be so proud. Fathorse 2008
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But words like "commodify" are foreign and even a little distasteful for many in this city, rather like finding tofu sausage in a gumbo.
NYT > Home Page By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON 2010
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I begin to wonder then about the consequences when we 'commodify' tourism to meet the market demands of the latest consumer trend and when we project our tourist perspective onto the communities we are visiting.
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I begin to wonder then about the consequences when we 'commodify' tourism to meet the market demands of the latest consumer trend and when we project our tourist perspective onto the communities we are visiting.
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But words like "commodify" are foreign and even a little distasteful for many in this city, rather like finding tofu sausage in a gumbo.
NYT > Home Page By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON 2010
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we cannot "commodify" the male body for the production of babies (if so they'd be charging a aquillion quid a throw).
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we cannot "commodify" the male body for the production of babies (if so they'd be charging a aquillion quid a throw).
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What might Curley think today when corporations aggressively take control of and commodify running water that for all of human and animal history has been as free as sunlight and air?
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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We are more than what we can see, touch, use or commodify.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children Cathleen Falsani 2011
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We are more than what we can see, touch, use or commodify.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children Cathleen Falsani 2011
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