to commoditize
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7.3
- verb
- /kəˈmɒdəˌtaɪz/
- Specialized
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comercializar
- When a company commoditizes its services, it often leads to lower prices and fewer unique features.
- commoditized products
- become commoditized
And with the Internet, the middle becomes way more commoditized real, real fast.
- And with the Internet, the middle becomes way more commoditized real, real fast.
- Your knowledge gets commoditized, people, more people will know.
- What we don't want, my friends, is to become commoditized.
- Of course bling is different than, you know, cancer, But but it's more commoditized than people think.
- Yeah, paid core though courses are paid courses without without community, I think are going to be commoditized.
Examples
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Meanwhile, bearings themselves had become commoditized, and offshore producers were bringing in cheaper substitutes.
Academic text (2012) -
As competition increased, many products were commoditized and became indistinguishable from one another.
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And with the Internet, the middle becomes way more commoditized real, real fast.
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But overall, prices come down over time as technology is commoditized and competition increases.
Blog text (15) -
Distribution has been commoditized now; there is no going back.
Blog text (4) -
The additional supply in handsets will commoditize prices and make buying phones cheaper every year.
Blog text (16) -
The problem is that music has been commoditized and devalued.
Blog text (33) -
Both Cisco and Dell are in the server business, which has increasingly become commoditized.
Blog text (31) -
The goal was to commoditize the software so that it could be easily used by anyone without special training.
Synonyms
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6.7
To make something for sale or use it mainly to make money
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4.6
To change something so many people can understand and use it
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8.0
To make something into a product people can buy, taking away its special meaning
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Etymology
Commoditize comes from the word commodity, which means a 'useful' thing that is 'common' or the same everywhere. So to commoditize something is to turn it into a simple, common product and make people choose it mainly by price instead of its special qualities.