"consumerize" meaning in All languages combined

See consumerize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: consumerizes [present, singular, third-person], consumerizing [participle, present], consumerized [participle, past], consumerized [past]
Etymology: consumer + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|consumer|ize}} consumer + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} consumerize (third-person singular simple present consumerizes, present participle consumerizing, simple past and past participle consumerized)
  1. (transitive) To turn into a consumer. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-consumerize-en-verb-xy6gfvbM
  2. (transitive) To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-consumerize-en-verb-EjcBkd3p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: consumerization, commercialize

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for consumerize meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "consumer",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "consumer + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "consumer + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "consumerizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "consumerizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "consumerized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "consumerized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "consumerize (third-person singular simple present consumerizes, present participle consumerizing, simple past and past participle consumerized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "consumerization"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "commercialize"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn into a consumer."
      ],
      "id": "en-consumerize-en-verb-xy6gfvbM",
      "links": [
        [
          "consumer",
          "consumer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To turn into a consumer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 16, David Pogue, “The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R.”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Nikon has tried to consumerize an existing S.L.R.; Canon has tried to S.L.R.-ize an existing consumer camera.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market)."
      ],
      "id": "en-consumerize-en-verb-EjcBkd3p",
      "links": [
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "consumption",
          "consumption"
        ],
        [
          "consumer",
          "consumer"
        ],
        [
          "industrial",
          "industrial"
        ],
        [
          "professional",
          "professional"
        ],
        [
          "business-to-business",
          "business-to-business"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "consumerize"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ize",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "consumer",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "consumer + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "consumer + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "consumerizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "consumerizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "consumerized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "consumerized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "consumerize (third-person singular simple present consumerizes, present participle consumerizing, simple past and past participle consumerized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "consumerization"
    },
    {
      "word": "commercialize"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn into a consumer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "consumer",
          "consumer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To turn into a consumer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 16, David Pogue, “The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R.”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Nikon has tried to consumerize an existing S.L.R.; Canon has tried to S.L.R.-ize an existing consumer camera.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "consumption",
          "consumption"
        ],
        [
          "consumer",
          "consumer"
        ],
        [
          "industrial",
          "industrial"
        ],
        [
          "professional",
          "professional"
        ],
        [
          "business-to-business",
          "business-to-business"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "consumerize"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.