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  • verb Present participle of commoditize.

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Examples

  • This move is based around the idea of commoditizing the platform faster and then taking advantage of the fact that they can then hire the best programmers out there.

    2008 June Roi Carthy 2005

  • Even though Windows Phone 7 has a tiny market share compared with Android, it may still be a better choice for Nokia because the company would risk losing its identity and "commoditizing" its business if it joined Android, Gartner's research vice president Carolina Milanesi said.

    Android Leads Handset-Sales Surge Gustav Sandstrom 2011

  • Quite the contrary, we try to simplify our markets by commoditizing food, but we have reached a period in which the slightest differentiating factor, from what kind of fertilizer was used on the field to the origin of the seed, can affect the price, market destination, and end use of a crop.

    Elizabeth McVay Greene: Finding the Sacred and the Satirical in our Food Elizabeth McVay Greene 2010

  • In the report, which analyzes the forces commoditizing enterprise storage, authors George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski write that leading storage vendors are planning their innovation around a 3-year time frame, expecting adoption of new storage technologies to coincide with emergence from the current recession.

    Cloud Computing Poised for Post-Recession Boom 2009

  • Quite the contrary, we try to simplify our markets by commoditizing food, but we have reached a period in which the slightest differentiating factor, from what kind of fertilizer was used on the field to the origin of the seed, can affect the price, market destination, and end use of a crop.

    Elizabeth McVay Greene: Finding the Sacred and the Satirical in our Food Elizabeth McVay Greene 2010

  • Quite the contrary, we try to simplify our markets by commoditizing food, but we have reached a period in which the slightest differentiating factor, from what kind of fertilizer was used on the field to the origin of the seed, can affect the price, market destination, and end use of a crop.

    Elizabeth McVay Greene: Finding the Sacred and the Satirical in our Food Elizabeth McVay Greene 2010

  • The creative direction of the interior design choices, while unquestionably luxurious, ironically has the net effect of commoditizing the hotel -- making it indistinguishable from other newer five star hotels from around the globe, rather than embracing the opportunity to evolve the unique narrative of the Bel Air.

    David Dixon: Hotel Bel Air: The Swans Stay in the Picture David Dixon 2011

  • Quite the contrary, we try to simplify our markets by commoditizing food, but we have reached a period in which the slightest differentiating factor, from what kind of fertilizer was used on the field to the origin of the seed, can affect the price, market destination, and end use of a crop.

    Elizabeth McVay Greene: Finding the Sacred and the Satirical in our Food Elizabeth McVay Greene 2010

  • Going with Google's Android would be amount to commoditizing to another hardware company.

    The Apple Nation Darcy Travlos 2010

  • Quite the contrary, we try to simplify our markets by commoditizing food, but we have reached a period in which the slightest differentiating factor, from what kind of fertilizer was used on the field to the origin of the seed, can affect the price, market destination, and end use of a crop.

    Elizabeth McVay Greene: Finding the Sacred and the Satirical in our Food Elizabeth McVay Greene 2010

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