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commoditizes

commoditizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about commoditizes

What is commoditizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Commoditizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of commoditize.

Words near commoditizes in the dictionary

  1. commoditization
  2. commoditize
  3. commoditized
  4. commoditizer
  5. commoditizers
  6. commoditizes
  7. commoditizing
  8. commodity
  9. commodity currencies
  10. commodity currency
  11. commodity diplomacy

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