To treat or organize something as a commodity that can be bought, sold or exchanged.
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Words that belong together
- commodify personal data
- commodify an experience
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The essay argued that the platform commodified personal data by making access to it part of a market transaction.
The project commodified an experience that participants had previously treated as a shared practice.
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Word forms
- Base
- commodify
- Past tense
- commodified
- Past participle
- commodified
- Present participle
- commodifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- commodify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are commodifying
- Present perfect
- have/has commodified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been commodifying
- Past
- commodified
- Past continuous
- was/were commodifying
- Past perfect
- had commodified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been commodifying
- Future
- will commodify
- Future continuous
- will be commodifying
- Future perfect
- will have commodified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been commodifying
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: commodify; commodifies; commodified; commodified; commodifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: commodifies.
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