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commoditizing

commoditizing is the present participle and gerund 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 commoditizing

What is commoditizing the present participle and gerund of?
Commoditizing is the present participle and gerund of commoditize.

Words near commoditizing in the dictionary

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

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