commoditize

American  

[kuh-mod-i-tahyz] / kəˈmɒd ɪˌtaɪz /

verb (used with object)

commoditized, commoditizing

1. commodify.

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commoditize British  

/ kəˈmɒdɪˌtaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) another term for commodify

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Etymology

Origin of commoditize

First recorded in 1975–80; commodit(y) + -ize

Example Sentences

“It’s just an interesting dynamic to see who will be able to commoditize who faster,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The story of how we got here is the subject of Taylor Lorenz’s compelling and expansive new book, “Extremely Online” — and it is, at heart, a story about the allure of fame, the desire to perform for a living, and how companies seeking to profit off of those base impulses encourage the hopeful to commoditize their personal experience.

From Los Angeles Times

"You do not want to commoditize the product," Farley said at a Wall Street Journal forum.

From Reuters

And the last few years have seen the rise of efforts to commoditize every last open corner of the web — including NFT adherents trying to convince us we should pay to “own” jpegs, crypto enthusiasts arguing that Bitcoin solves financial regulation and apps ratcheting up the data they harvest from you and sell to brokers.

From Los Angeles Times

If you commoditize the hardware and say, “I am going to run my own software,” do those companies worry it is just a race to the bottom?

From The Verge