commodify

verb

com·​mod·​i·​fy kə-ˈmä-də-ˌfī 

commodified; commodifying

transitive verb

: to turn (something, such as an intrinsic value or a work of art) into a commodity

… tech behemoths who rob us of much of our personal information and then commodify and sell that information …

—Denny May

commodification

kə-ˌmä-də-fə-ˈkā-shən 

noun

Examples of commodify in a Sentence

Do we really want to commodify our water supply?

I feel like our culture is being commodified.

Recent Examples on the Web

Or will the troves of data being amassed on nonhuman animals be used to further commodify and objectify them? — David Gruber, Time, 24 Apr. 2025

If the sole aim of a company is to profit, extraction and exploitation become the norm as businesses seek new resources to commodify. — Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025

Model improvements may commodify quickly. — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

Far from democratizing creativity, these projects frequently centralize authority and commodify the works of individual creators. — Virginie Berger, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

see commodity

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for commodify

• acidify
• alveoli
• antinomy
• areolae
• demystify
• detoxify
• disqualify
• diversify
• electrify
• exemplify
• fasciculi
• identify