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verb

commoditize

to turn a unique product into an interchangeable one competing primarily on price

In a sentence

Six example sentences with commoditize, each labelled with its topic.

  • Within a year three rivals shipped the same feature and commoditized it, leaving price as the only thing customers compared.

    Startups

  • Cheap container shipping commoditized coffee beans until buyers stopped asking which farm grew them and simply took the lowest bid.

    Economics

  • Stock libraries commoditized the travel photograph, so editors now pick whichever sunset costs least rather than hunting a particular photographer.

    Photography

  • Cloud providers commoditized the server, so nobody now asks whose hardware actually runs their app.

    Technology

  • Streaming commoditized the album, turning a crafted forty minutes into interchangeable tracks paid per play.

    Music

  • Index funds commoditized investing, and fees fell until brokers could no longer compete on anything but price.

    Finance

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