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Meaning of commoditize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To transform into a commodity, particularly of an existing product.

US, proscribed, transitive

Examples

“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 fierce margins that make it extremely hard to make a profit.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

commoditized commoditizes commoditizing common common-place common-placed