Meaning & use
Commodified
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Turned into or treated as a commodity, something bought and sold for profit, often used critically of things not traditionally seen as marketable.
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Critics argue that social media has commodified personal relationships.
Water, once considered a public good, has become increasingly commodified in some regions.
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Commodified is frequently used in sociology and cultural criticism to describe how markets absorb aspects of life once outside commerce.
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marketizedmonetized
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