Synonyms of commodify

commodify

verb

as in to exploit

disapproving to treat (something that cannot be owned or that everyone has a right to) like a product that can be bought and sold

Do we really want to commodify our water supply?

I feel like our culture is being commodified.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exploit
• manipulate
• abuse
• commercialize
• use
• leverage
• pimp
• impose (on or upon)
• milk
• play (on or upon)
• cash in (on)
• mistreat
• capitalize (on)
• work
• cheat
• jerk around
• bleed
• soak
• skin
• overcharge
• stick
• fleece

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of commodify

But the pursuit of online fame, particularly through Instagram, has supercharged the often toxic phenomenon, The Times found, encouraging parents to commodify their children’s images. —Michael H. Keller, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024

The play isn’t subtle in presenting its allegory of national racial dysfunction—the white family’s self-absorption in the face of Black suffering, and their swift move to commodify it—but Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic machinery is often immensely effective. —Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023

The five young women in the group must navigate the dark side of a glamorous industry determined to commodify them. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023

Candyman is the most disappointing film of the year so far, limning not only the artistic failures of the individuals who ushered it to life, but the artistic failures of an entire industry that seeks to commodify Blackness to embolden its bottom line. —Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021