consumerize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption.
to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
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to encourage or foster the widespread consumption of (goods or a product).
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The paradox is that even though we live in this consumerized world in which everything is devolved down to a symbol, a visual symbol, that symbol in his case is nonetheless potent.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2017
He may still be proven right — products such as Lenovo’s Horizon are essentially consumerized versions of Surface, at price points which make them plausible for home use.
From Time ● Sep. 1, 2013
Hanke co-founded Keyhole, a software development firm in the then-nascent field of consumerized "spatial visualization."
From Inc ● Dec. 20, 2012
First, consumerized 3-D graphics had become affordable and easy to use.
From Inc ● Dec. 20, 2012
Rather, they are “taking over law firms as they become consumerized ubiquitously.”
From Forbes ● Dec. 12, 2011
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