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Commodification is what happens when something that used to sit outside the market — care, water, a song, even a person’s time — starts being treated as a thing you buy and sell, or starts being judged mainly by how much money it can make. Writers who use this word usually do not like the change; they are saying this used to have another kind of value, and now money is swallowing it. You meet it in essays, university talk, and serious news commentary, not in the shops. The verb is commodify. If you only mean “they started selling it,” plain English can say that; this word adds a .
商品化（帶貶義：把不該用錢衡量的東西變成商品）
組成From commodity (a thing you buy and sell) + -fication (the making of). Commodity comes, through French, from Latin commodus, built from com- + modus (measure).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commodificationnoun/kəˌmɒ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
- Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
- Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
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The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
- A company that innovates to achieve the commercialization of a technology often must shift strategy some decades later in response to the advent of that technology's commodification.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。