- to cause to be shared, done, used, etc., in common among members of a group: A commission was established to commonize vehicle regulations across Europe so as to standardize best practices.Commonize the way members of your organization develop solutions.
- to treat as ordinary or common and therefore unremarkable or unimportant: Don’t commonize your achievements.You're commonizing and trivializing activity that is clearly a serious crime.
- to cause (cost, risk, resources, etc.) to be shared with or by the public: These corporations have found a way to commonize costs while privatizing profit.
