commoditize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of commoditize
First recorded in 1975–80; commodit(y) + -ize
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“It’s just an interesting dynamic to see who will be able to commoditize who faster,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
"You do not want to commoditize the product," Farley said at a Wall Street Journal forum.
From Reuters ● May 3, 2023
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 ● Aug. 9, 2022
“Then that pile of information becomes additive towards this real understanding, that we have completely forgotten the value of wild in our rush to commoditize this animal.”
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
Philippon speculates that as basic services commoditize, new, more expensive products emerge, such as asset management, in a continual effort to beat the market.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2018
Since the memory-chip business has largely been commoditized, companies like Micron usually could charge only slightly more for their chips than it cost to manufacture them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
These kinds of commoditized industries tend to succumb to price wars: The lowest-cost producer “wins” by destroying the entire industry’s margins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
“ETFs have become somewhat commoditized on the passive side,” said Michael Hunstad, president of Northern Trust Asset Management, which manages $1.4 trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Essentially, the hyperscalers are pouring money into large language models that can be commoditized and difficult to monetize, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
“They’ve laid so much fiber in the ground that they’ve basically commoditized themselves. They are going to get into massive price wars with everyone and it’s going to be a disaster.”
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
We should be commoditizing and forcing shopping not the opposite.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2018
Analogous to the business theory of disruptive innovation, undercutting the price of 80 percent of dental care may have the unintended consequence of commoditizing much of the profession.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2017
The same is true of technology’s power: The cloud is rapidly commoditizing the availability of top-class technology.
From Forbes ● Oct. 15, 2014
And while the new TaskRabbit is more streamlined and treats Taskers more professionally, it also makes them more interchangeable, commoditizing the work they do.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2014
Sure, PCs were more powerful, but in commoditizing the PC marketplace with its chips, Intel had created a situation in which proprietary software vendors now held the power.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam
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