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commoditise

commoditise is the alternative spelling of commoditize.

Meaning of commoditize

Verb

commoditize (third-person singular simple present commoditizes, present participle commoditizing, simple past and past participle commoditized)

  1. (US, proscribed, transitive) To transform into a commodity, particularly of an existing product.
    • IBM's goal was to commoditize the add-in market, which is a complement of the PC market, and they did this quite successfully.[…] Microsoft's goal was to commoditize the PC market. Very soon, the PC itself was basically a commodity, with ever decreasing prices, consistently increasing power, and...2004, Joel Spolsky, “Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source”, in Joel on Software […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 284
    Synonyms:
    commodify

Forms of commoditise

third-person singular presentcommoditises
present participlecommoditising
past participlecommoditised
pastcommoditised

Questions about commoditise

What is commoditise the alternative spelling of?
Commoditise is the alternative spelling of commoditize.

Words near commoditise in the dictionary

  1. commodiously
  2. commodiousness
  3. commoditie
  4. commodities
  5. commoditisation
  6. commoditise
  7. commoditised
  8. commoditises
  9. commoditising
  10. commoditizable
  11. commoditization

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