monetized?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:39:45AM -0500, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
> as in "... these superstars are finally doing something productive bysides
> spinning off crap to shareholders when it should have been monetized ..."
>
> Today was the first time I had seen monetized (on a yahoo finance board).
> Has it been around long?

OED has it from the 1860s or the 1950s, depending on which sense.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED