Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To establish as legal tender.
- v. To coin (money).
- v. To convert (government debt) from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To give the character of money to; legalize as money; coin into money.
Wiktionary
- v. To convert something (especially a security) into currency
- v. To mint money
- v. To establish a currency as legal tender
- v. To make a business activity profit-generating, particularly in computer and internet-related activities.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To convert into money; to adopt as current money.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country
Etymologies
- From Latin monēta, money; see money. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One way Boxee will monetize is they will revenue share with services that they officially integrate and they do this with Joost who gave the Boxee developers full access to their APIs and have a partnership with them.”
“The public domain, on principle, pisses them off, because it’s use of “content” that they can’t monetize, and make no mistake, the ability to monetize is what every step of their bullshit is about.”
“Umair (who also blogs as a discussion leader at Harvard Business Online) loathes the term monetize, he said, because you have to * create* value before you can capitalise on it; you have to have a purpose before you can profit from it.”
“The best way to monetize is to make stuff that people can't live without," McKean said.”
“Worse yet, often the only real way to monetize is to take a teensy percentage of an already low-priced track.”
“How much 'figuring' was there to "monetize" Interstate freeways (by rich folks)?”
“Facebook then attempts to "monetize" one's data by selling it to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.”
“By late 2008, YouTube's attempts to "monetize" its vast streams of amateur videos had hit choppy water.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Schiller: Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine?
“Bloomberg isn't worried about congestion; these rules are part of his larger plan to privatize and "monetize" our city's parks.”
“The company has compiled a vocabulary list of 5,000 words for its workers to learn, including terms like "monetize" and "functional.”
The Wall Street Journal: Japanese Firm's New Policy: 'English Spoken Here'
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monetize’.
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 319 more...
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The "ize" have it
accessorize, finalize, computerize, prioritize, anodize, belizean, bizerte, capsize, citizen, denize, dizen, diazotize and 98 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Tricky To Spell or Pronounce
ply, stationary, stationery, monetize, finagle, cartilaginous, apposite, languor, douceur, Umwelt, faze, sequela and 22 more...
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There's a word for it
catkin, pastiche, badonkadonk, biome, omphaloscopy, pogonophobia, reptation, anathema, xyst, commodify, commoditize, monetize and 69 more...
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Cringeworthy Words and Phrases Encoun...
Don't get me wrong: I like my job. I like everyone I work with too, but not all of them are word lovers, and many of them abuse the language in ways that hurt me. I'm stashing them here so that p...
architected, beveraged, on the same sheet..., moving forward, incent, utilize, its', needless to say, right behind left..., brand equity, throughput, impactful and 7 more...
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Specificity
Words that have with subtly different meanings from other words.
vestibule, commoditize, commodify, monetize, corroborate, mezzanine, apposite, irony, calefacient, maxim, pandiculate, rarefaction and 45 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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Managementese
These are words to avoid at all costs. As Scott Berkun has said, the people who use the most jargon have the least confidence in their ideas. These are the words of passive aggression, of mild verb...
transitioning, agreeance, key, core, ideation, action, bandwidth, impactfulness, monetize
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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de-verb this word
Nouns made into unnatural verbs, nouns used as verbs, verbs that used to be intransitive
systematize, alphabeticalize, problematize, impact, monetize, incentivize, actualize, randomize, conceptualize, exit, access, resource and 31 more...
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Dahnielson's English Words
schwag, clitterati, ignocrat, feck, manscaping, monetize, crypto-dyke, prickish, cms, tiramisoup, instapreneur, tweople and 5 more...
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weasel words
It may take some time to heal.
business as usual, monetize, unique selling pr..., symphony product, birging, abridged ellipsis, new initiative, moving forward, stakeholder, let's take it off..., make the logo bigger, learnings and 16 more...
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my words
sustain, aggregate, alongside, unsubstantiated, brutal, cruel, ruthless, deem, noteworthy, stuff, confidence, evangelist and 17 more...
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awful words you should never say
monetize, cognitive dissonance, tipping point, aspirational, sucks, gnarly, deconstruct, unique, interesting, panties, synergy, postmodern and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for monetize.
jeffrey.t.whitney Yuck. I hate it almost as much as 'incentivize'. Jun 11, 2009
themoose It is an economics term, but relates to placing a monetary value on something that isn't market-traded, such as the value of avoiding an illness. Dec 8, 2006