monetize

to introduce a thing as currency, e.g., silver, gold, copper. In nearly all cases, when something has been monetized, it is legal tender and debtors are legally obligated to accept it as payment for debt.

Debt can also be monetized. A government can either buy the debt of companies whose growth it favors as a matter of policy (as in pre-War Japan) or permit its own bonds to be be used as banking reserves (for the creation of money).

In 1878 Congress passed the Bland Bill, which monetized silver at a ratio of 16:1 to gold.

by Abu Yahya January 23, 2009

monetize

screw the customer, take something that is already good and make it less useful or fill it with obnoxious ads in order to make money from it

Game developer: I finished the game.
Publisher: Lets monetize it!
Game developer: ??
Publisher: We lock content that is already on the disk, and then charge people a fee to use it!
Game developer: That seems unethical.
Publisher: Monetize!

by chodelord October 30, 2008

monetize

To turn a business such as Twitter into a way of raising revenue.

Urban Dictionary decided to further monetize itself by selling coffee mugs.

by theqhausdorff August 8, 2009

monetizing brandwhore

A blogger who is only interested in receiving free products, trips, or publicity by exploiting brands and sponsors in order to gain exposure and drive more traffic to his or her blog (to make money).

Look at Buffy, pimping her latest blog post everywhere for the tenth time today. She's such a monetizing brandwhore.

by Chibi Jeeb August 27, 2011

Monetization of Confirmation Bias

The monetization of confirmation bias is the act of generating revenue from a person or group of peoples preconceived conclusion or thoughts.

That industry is making a large amount of money off of the Monetization of Confirmation Bias.

by Marlo L February 18, 2019

Monetization

When idealists who put dreams before business models starting to figure out how to make money.

- Look what I've built recently, what do you think?
- It's great! What's your business model?
- Hmmm ... I need to work on the Monetization plan?

by ryaneof July 2, 2021

Immaculate monetization

Money whose source may not be questioned.

Republicans have adopted new House rules that require cuts equal to or greater than new spending, except for their party's own legislative agenda items, which are presumably paid for by immaculate monetization.

by ethermeme January 7, 2011