Meanings
present singular third person productizes · participle present productizing · participle past productized · past productized · alternative productise
- transitiveTo make something into a product, especially a commercial product.
Near-synonym: commercialize
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The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) provides its members with new technologies which they can productize as part of their membership in the consortium.
1990, AI Trends“[…]What I do is pattern recognition. I try to recognize a pattern before anyone else does.” “And then?” “I point a commodifier at it.” “And?” “It gets productized. Turned into units. Marketed.”
2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 86Configurable processes are at the heart of the ESA platform. In this way, it productizes the integration of the underlying systems and provides the PCA developer with a homogenous model of the enterprise and the ability to define processes on top of that model.
2003, Dan Woods, Packaged Composite Applications: An O'Reilly Field Guide to Enterprise SoftwareDuring the period of 1992–2003, Japan focused on productizing PV as a grid-tied, small-scale PV system (over 90% of which was a standardized residential rooftop system) accounting for over 90% of its overall cumulative PV installation.
2010, Tidd Joe, Gaining Momentum: Managing The Diffusion Of InnovationsGoogle’s push into productizing generative AI is substantially fear-driven, faith-based, and informed by the actions of competitors that are far less invested in and dependent on the vast collection of behaviors — websites full of content authentic and inauthentic, volunteer and commercial, social and antisocial, archival and up-to-date — that make up what’s left of the web and have far less to lose.
2025 May 26, John Herrman, “Google Is Burying the Web Alive”, in New York magazineSynonyms: commercialize
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make something into a product, especially a commercial product.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Italic*pro-
- Latinprō-
- Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
- Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
- Proto-Italic*doukō
- Latindūcō
- Latinprōdūcō
- Latinprōductus
- Middle Englishproduct
- Englishproduct
- Englishproductize
Translations
Finnish tuotteistaa
- tuotteistaato make into a commercial product
Polish produktyzować, sproduktyzować
- produktyzowaćto make into a commercial product
- sproduktyzowaćto make into a commercial product
Cite this entry
productize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/productize
“productize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/productize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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