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commercial
English
Etymology
commerce +? -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??m????l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??m???l/
Noun
commercial (plural commercials)
- An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
- (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
- (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
- 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young! (page 32)
- I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
- 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young! (page 32)
- (slang) A male prostitute.
- 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story (page 133)
- Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.
- 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs (page 39)
- With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money.
- 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story (page 133)
Hypernyms
- advertisement
Hyponyms
- infomercial
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)
- Of or pertaining to commerce.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.
Translations
Related terms
- commerce
- commercialize
- precommercial
Further reading
- commercial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- commercial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin commerci?lis, from Latin commercium; equivalent to commerce +? -ial
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.m??.sjal/
- Homophones: commerciale, commerciales
Adjective
commercial (feminine singular commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)
- commercial
Derived terms
Noun
commercial m (plural commerciaux)
- a salesman, sales representative
Further reading
- “commercial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
commercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
- Obsolete spelling of comercial
Adjective
commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
- Obsolete spelling of comercial
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flatbed
English
Etymology
flat +? bed
Noun
flatbed (plural flatbeds)
- An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
- A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
- (computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.
Translations
Adjective
flatbed (not comparable)
- Having a flat bed.
- I can't scan the whole document quickly because I only have a flatbed scanner.
- The accident left the contents of a flatbed trailer scattered across all three lanes.
Verb
flatbed (third-person singular simple present flatbeds, present participle flatbedding, simple past and past participle flatbedded)
- To transport by flatbed.
Usage notes
The verb "to flatbed" is most commonly used when referring to the transportation of a vehicle, to make it clear that the vehicle is not being driven.
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