different between commercial vs marketable
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
commercial From the web:
marketable
English
Etymology
market +? -able
Adjective
marketable (comparative more marketable, superlative most marketable)
- Of or pertaining to marketability; capable of being marketed.
- The quality and scarcity ensured that the product was eminently marketable.
- saleable (of goods) or employable (of people)
- 2010, Gennady Stolyarov II, The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools:
- The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.
- 2010, Gennady Stolyarov II, The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools:
Translations
marketable From the web:
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- what marketable securities
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- what is mean by marketable securities
- what marketable goods
- what is marketable surplus
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