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commoditized

commoditized is the simple past and past participle 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

Adjective

commoditized (comparative more commoditized, superlative most commoditized)

  1. Transformed into a commodity

Forms of commoditized

comparativemore commoditized
superlativemost commoditized

Questions about commoditized

What does commoditized mean?
Commoditized means transformed into a commodity.
What is commoditized the simple past and past participle of?
Commoditized is the simple past and past participle of commoditize.
What part of speech is commoditized?
Commoditized is an adjective.

Words near commoditized in the dictionary

  1. commoditises
  2. commoditising
  3. commoditizable
  4. commoditization
  5. commoditize
  6. commoditized
  7. commoditizer
  8. commoditizers
  9. commoditizes
  10. commoditizing
  11. commodity

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