commodification

plural commodifications

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

   Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization

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

   2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change

   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.

   2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: commercialization, monetization

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

   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.

   Synonyms: commoditization