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com·mer·cial (kə mʉr′s̸həl)
adjective
- of or connected with commerce or trade
- of or having to do with stores, office buildings, etc. commercial property
- of a lower grade, or for use in large quantities in industry commercial sulfuric acid
- made, done, or operating primarily for profit
- designed to have wide popular appeal
- offering training in business skills, methods, etc.
- Radio, TV paid for by sponsors
noun
Related Forms:
- commercially com·mer′·cially adverb
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
commercial
modif.
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.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.
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Converse of object
- shoot: In addition we create formats for sport and game shows, shoot commercials and produce high quality webcasts for global audiences.
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.
Modifies a noun
- exploitation: Set in place the commercial exploitation of Pathways through the Portuguese partner.
Modifying Another Word
- purely: Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) is a term for business activities addressing goals that are not purely commercial.
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.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Fuel cells will have to be much cheaper to become commercial in vehicles.
Preposition: in
- nature: This is due to the commercial in confidence nature of work of the Committee.
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The phonographis not of any commercial value.
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'.
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.
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