Monetize

Quick meaning: Monetize is a verb meaning To convert something (especially a security) into currency.

Meaning

To convert something (especially a security) into currency.

More Meanings

1. To mint money.
2. To establish a currency as legal tender.
3. (transitive) To make an activity profit-generating, particularly in computer and Internet-related activities.

Example Sentences

We considered monetizing our computer help forums by inserting ad banners.

A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.

“Now, when you upload a video to YouTube that accumulates lots of views, we may invite you to monetize that video and start earning revenue from it,” Shenaz Zack, a product manager, wrote on a YouTube blog.

Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth.

Word Forms

• monetizes
• monetizing
• monetized
• monetise

Antonyms for monetize

Common opposites include demonetize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include update, modify, monetise, monetarise, monetarize, redeem.

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