| 释义 |
commoditize, v.
Brit. |kəˈmɒdɪtʌɪz|, U.S. |kəˈmɑdəˌtaɪz|
Forms: 19– commoditise, 19– commoditize
[‹ commodity n. + -ize suffix, after commoditization n. Compare slightly earlier commoditized adj.]
trans. To turn into or treat as a (mere) commodity.
1979Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 85 569 When deep gestures of exchange enter the market sector and are bought and sold as an aspect of labor power, feelings are commoditized. 1983P. Wexler Critical Social Psychol. 15 Social psychologists are trying to undo in thought the demands of their cultural task. That current task is to commoditize and legitimate social ignorance as science. 1994Daily Tel. 3 Oct. 26/7 Their employment is either falling—where their wages are artificially held up—or being commoditised, where people are being used at low wages for low-productivity tasks. 2001Time 10 Dec. 70/2 Says..[the] president of Global Change Associates, a consultancy that has studied Enron, ‘They tried to commoditize everything.’ |