0 to change something into money, or to express something in terms of money or a currency:
Japan is monetizing several trillion dollars of government debt.
The problem was how to monetize this kind of social networking site.
1 to change something into money of equal value:
monetize an asset/a debt Monetizing debt is a complicated investment few understand.
2 to cause something to earn money:
We can monetize website traffic by showing advertisements.
The benefits of these reductions do not appear to have been monetized in the analysis.
In addition to the quantified and monetized benefits summarized above, there are a number of additional categories are not currently amenable to quantification or valuation.
The economy was monetized, and market production increased.
The coverage of the economic approach to policy analysis, based on efficiency criteria developed in terms of monetized costs and benefits, is reasonably comprehensive.
In other cases, monetized impact estimates are substantially higher.
Assessing economic efficiency of a project requires that benefits be monetized and thus made commensurate with costs.
The damage value of contaminated water is monetized in order to obtain the total monetized value of the opportunity cost of illness.
Since the requirement to monetize government budget deficit is given priority, the inconsistency of the central bank's two objectives will cause the exchange rate to float ultimately.