productize

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verb

To make something into a product, especially a commercial product.

“Near-synonym: commercialize”

Scrabble 24

Meanings

verbproductize (third-person singular simple present productizes, present participle productizing, simple past and past participle productized)

present singular third person productizes · participle present productizing · participle past productized · past productized · alternative productise

  1. transitiveTo make something into a product, especially a commercial product.

    Near-synonym: commercialize

    5 more examples

    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 86

    Configurable 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 Software

    During 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 Innovations

    Google’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 magazine

    Synonyms: commercialize

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make something into a product, especially a commercial product.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  5. Proto-Italic*pro-
  6. Latinprō-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
  9. Proto-Italic*doukō
  10. Latindūcō
  11. Latinprōdūcō
  12. Latinprōductus
  13. Middle Englishproduct
  14. Englishproduct
  15. Englishproductize

From product + -ize.

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Translations

Finnish tuotteistaa
  • tuotteistaato make into a commercial product
Polish produktyzować, sproduktyzować
  • produktyzowaćto make into a commercial product
  • sproduktyzowaćto make into a commercial product
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