different between commercialize vs commercial

English

Alternative forms

• commercialise (UK)

Etymology

commercial +? -ize

Verb

commercialize (third-person singular simple present commercializes, present participle commercializing, simple past and past participle commercialized)

1. (transitive) to bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).

2. (transitive) to apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).

   Coordinate term: monetize

3. (transitive) to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.

Translations

See also

• consumerize
• monetize

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)

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
2. (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
3. (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.

4. (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.

Hypernyms

• advertisement

Hyponyms

• infomercial

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)

1. 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.

2. (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3. (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)

1. commercial

Derived terms

Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaux)

1. 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)

1. Obsolete spelling of comercial

Adjective

commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

1. Obsolete spelling of comercial