monetize

[ mon-i-tahyz, muhn- ]

verb (used with object)

, mon·e·tized, mon·e·tiz·ing.

1. to legalize as money.
2. to coin into money:

   to monetize gold.

3. to give the character of money to.
4. Economics. to convert (a debt, especially the national debt) into currency, especially by issuing government securities or notes.
5. to make a profit or derive income from:

   Lots of people download the game, but the start-up hasn’t been able to monetize the add-on features.

monetize

/ ˈmʌnɪˌtaɪz /

verb

1. to establish as the legal tender of a country
2. to give a legal value to (a coin)

Derived Forms

• ˌmonetiˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• mon·e·ti·za·tion [mon-i-tahy-, zey, -sh, uh, n, muhn-] especially British, mon·e·ti·sa·tion noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of monetize¹

First recorded in 1875–80; from Latin monēt(a) money + -ize

Example Sentences

Subscription services appear to be the key way forward for monetizing relatively low-cost devices.

From TechCrunch

A more creative funding idea floated in the agreement is to somehow monetize the small trees, twigs, and other bits scraped up into piles during thinning treatments.

From Popular-Science

In addition to building that massive information retrieval system, Google monetized on those economic searches through advertising.

From Search Engine Watch

Few have monetized NLP and machine learning as well as Google, but their technological edge has always been computational power.

From Search Engine Watch

The post How a digital publisher monetized 8X more in one month with WordPress scaling strategies appeared first on Search Engine Watch.

From Search Engine Watch

In the meantime, once it goes public, it will face larger pressures to monetize all those tweets and ramp up advertising.

From The Daily Beast

Everyone else could monetize their 2008 experience except the man most loyal to the president.

From The Daily Beast

And now that Instagram is finally attempting to monetize those eyeballs, it is seeing serious blowback from its users.

From The Daily Beast

The idea behind the effort is to monetize YouTube by positioning it as a competitor to Netflix for streaming Hollywood movies.

From The Daily Beast

A central element in the movie, more or less accurate, is that Saverin wanted to "monetize" Thefacebook quickly.

From The Daily Beast