commodification — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.

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   Synonyme

   commercializationmonetization

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   Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization

   Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.

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   One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history.

2. The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.

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   Synonyme

   commoditization

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   A company that innovates to achieve the commercialization of a technology often must shift strategy some decades later in response to the advent of that technology's commodification.