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单词 commodify
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Definition of commodify in English:

commodify

verbcommodifies, commodified, commodifying kəˈmɒdɪfʌɪkəˈmädəˌfī
[with object]
  • Turn into or treat as a mere commodity.

    使商品化;把…看作商品

    some conservationists have criticized the approach as commodifying nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are economic incentives to commodify your tragedy, and that she did it is not surprising.
    • Any effort to aestheticize or commodify art is an attempt at censorship.
    • ‘It seems like an attempt to commodify people so they can be marketed too,’ he argues.
    • Art in this country is commodified and transformed into something for commercial consumption.
    • She believes that it is nothing but a romanticised version of history, guilty of manipulating its audience and commodifying the people and culture of the locations they choose for their game.
    • If we treat information as a proprietary good, we commodify information, and create ownership and control regimes.
    • The whole idea of this propaganda is to commercialise every relationship; and to commodify every person.
    • Often local residents are interested in commodifying their own natural resources while out of town visitors - with the security of a regular pay check - want to preserve a pastoral landscape in its ‘pristine’ state.
    • On the one hand you could see it as a way of raising awareness of the illness, on the other it was crassly commodifying AIDS.
    • Part of the point I was making is that the new technologies commodify information and therefore tend to lock it up rather than disperse it.
    • But, as with most cool things from the margins of society, the mainstream ripped it off and commodified it, nearly wrecking the art form entirely in the process.
    • There are a lot of cab companies where I live. Cab driving is a pretty commodified business.
    • Of course, by giving their work a physical component and creating objects that can be sold, Net artists have found a way to commodify their work.
    • Even leisure and love are commodified and sold back to us.
    • To commodify it, to privatise it, to put a dollar value on it… is just an abomination of the system we live in, where greed and money dominate over human need.
    • Her goal is also to create playful, original art that cannot be commodified.
    • The idea that water can be commodified and sold for profit runs counter to the overall philosophy of the conference that water is necessary for life and is therefore sacred.
    • At the same time, the rise of blues festivals across the country has further commodified the blues as a feel-good music.
    • Some groups have focused on organizing and commodifying the informal, undisciplined, semi-professional knowledges that circulate within academic communities.
    • He believes that the they are conspiring and commodifying art.

Origin

1980s: from commodity + -fy.

Rhymes

modify

Definition of commodify in US English:

commodify

verbkəˈmädəˌfī
[with object]
  • Turn into or treat as a commodity.

    使商品化;把…看作商品

    some conservationists have criticized the approach as commodifying nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Art in this country is commodified and transformed into something for commercial consumption.
    • Of course, by giving their work a physical component and creating objects that can be sold, Net artists have found a way to commodify their work.
    • ‘It seems like an attempt to commodify people so they can be marketed too,’ he argues.
    • He believes that the they are conspiring and commodifying art.
    • Any effort to aestheticize or commodify art is an attempt at censorship.
    • There are economic incentives to commodify your tragedy, and that she did it is not surprising.
    • To commodify it, to privatise it, to put a dollar value on it… is just an abomination of the system we live in, where greed and money dominate over human need.
    • Even leisure and love are commodified and sold back to us.
    • Her goal is also to create playful, original art that cannot be commodified.
    • At the same time, the rise of blues festivals across the country has further commodified the blues as a feel-good music.
    • She believes that it is nothing but a romanticised version of history, guilty of manipulating its audience and commodifying the people and culture of the locations they choose for their game.
    • If we treat information as a proprietary good, we commodify information, and create ownership and control regimes.
    • The idea that water can be commodified and sold for profit runs counter to the overall philosophy of the conference that water is necessary for life and is therefore sacred.
    • On the one hand you could see it as a way of raising awareness of the illness, on the other it was crassly commodifying AIDS.
    • But, as with most cool things from the margins of society, the mainstream ripped it off and commodified it, nearly wrecking the art form entirely in the process.
    • There are a lot of cab companies where I live. Cab driving is a pretty commodified business.
    • Part of the point I was making is that the new technologies commodify information and therefore tend to lock it up rather than disperse it.
    • Often local residents are interested in commodifying their own natural resources while out of town visitors - with the security of a regular pay check - want to preserve a pastoral landscape in its ‘pristine’ state.
    • The whole idea of this propaganda is to commercialise every relationship; and to commodify every person.
    • Some groups have focused on organizing and commodifying the informal, undisciplined, semi-professional knowledges that circulate within academic communities.

Origin

1980s: from commodity + -fy.

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