commodifier

English

Etymology

commodify +‎ -er

Noun

commodifier (plural commodifiers)

1. One who commodifies.
   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 86:

     “ […] What I do is pattern recognition. I try to recognize a pattern before anyone else does.”
     “And then?”
     “I point a commodifier at it.”
     “And?”
     “It gets productized. Turned into units. Marketed.”

   • 2009 August 22, “North America debates health care”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     He is a privatizer and commodifier supreme who has use for the public sector only as a vehicle for increasing the gap between rich and poor through tax cuts that largely benefit the wealthy while weakening government's ability to finance social programs that are essential to the great majority.