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commercial Definition

com·mer·cial (kə mʉr′s̸həl)

adjective

  1. of or connected with commerce or trade
  2. of or having to do with stores, office buildings, etc. commercial property
  3. of a lower grade, or for use in large quantities in industry commercial sulfuric acid
    1. made, done, or operating primarily for profit
    2. designed to have wide popular appeal
  5. offering training in business skills, methods, etc.
  6. Radio, TV paid for by sponsors

noun

Radio, TV a paid advertisement

commercial Related Forms
com·mer′·cially adverb
commercial Synonyms

commercial

modif.

  1. Concerning commerce

    business, trade, financial, economic, mercantile, merchandising, marketing, industrial, pecuniary, fiscal, monetary, market, sales, trading, bartering, exchange, jobbing, supplying, retail, retailing, wholesale, wholesaling, marketable, in the market, for sale, over the counter, Wall Street; see also industrial.

  2. Intended primarily for financial gain

    monetary, for profit, pecuniary, mercenary, materialistic, investment, marketable, salable, popular, mass-produced, profit-making, money-making; see also practical, profitable.

commercial Synonyms

commercial

n.

message from the sponsor, commercial announcement, plug*; see advertisement 2.

commercial Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • shoot: In addition we create formats for sport and game shows, shoot commercials and produce high quality webcasts for global audiences.
  • watch: It's hard to believe that we spend an estimated one-and-a-half years of our lives just watching TV commercials.
  • produce: Together they produced a campaigning commercial which is shown regularly on television.

Adjective modifier

  • 30-second: The 30-second commercial and a ten-second cutdown will run for six weeks in a burst planned and bought by BBJ Media.
  • Non: Non Commercial You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Modifies a noun

  • exploitation: Set in place the commercial exploitation of Pathways through the Portuguese partner.
  • purpose: The network may not be used for commercial purposes.
  • premise: A For enquiries relating to Refuse Collection for Commercial premises you should contact City Cleansing Trade Waste section on 0191 278 3033.
  • property: List minimum equipment required to run a commercial beef cattle property.
  • success: Ease of use is now key to the commercial success of modern SEMs.
  • vehicle: A well sited gasoline pump dispensing fuel to commercial vehicles can easily dispense millions of liters of fuel per year.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) is a term for business activities addressing goals that are not purely commercial.
  • overtly: It might have been fine for on overtly commercial meeting promoting certain commercial products and held in a hotel or some such commercial venue.
  • especially: Wolff Tanning Beds Make informed decisions about tanning beds, especially commercial tanning beds such as Sunquest tanning beds and Wolff tanning beds!
  • even: The plan is to pull together diverse health organizations, NGOs, health publishers, government organizations, even commercial sponsors.

Noun used with modifier

  • TV: It's hard to believe that we spend an estimated one-and-a-half years of our lives just watching TV commercials.
  • television: His television commercials for such clients as Nike, Saturn, Apple Computer, Acura and IBM have also earned awards.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Fuel cells will have to be much cheaper to become commercial in vehicles.
  • go: He then went commercial, working for agencies Ogilvy & Mather and TBWA.

Preposition: in

  • nature: This is due to the commercial in confidence nature of work of the Committee.
commercial Quotes

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary, and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

—Stapledon, Olaf

Any society, so long as it is, or feels itselfto be, a working society, tends to invest in itself: a military society tends to become more military, a bureaucratic society more bureaucratic, a commercial society more commercial, as thestatus and profits of waroroffice orcommerceare enhanced by success, and institutions are framed to forward it. Therefore, when such a society is hit by a general crisis, it finds itself partly paralyzed by the structural weight of increased social investment. The dominant military or official or commercial classes cannot easily change their orientation: and their social dominance, and the institutions through which it is exercised, prevent other classes from securing power or changing policy.

—Glanton

We live in oppressive times.We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship', we call it 'concern for commercial viability'.

—Mamet, David Alan

The phonograph†is not of any commercial value.

—Edison,Thomas Alva

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

—Safer, Morley