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Commercial
Definitions
- 1 Of or pertaining to commerce.
"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 Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- 3 Designating such an airplane flight.
- 1 connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises wordnet
- 2 profit oriented wordnet
- 3 of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior wordnet
- 4 of or relating to commercialism wordnet
- 1 An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
"She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal."
- 2 a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television wordnet
- 3 A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
- 4 A commercial traveller. obsolete
"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."
- 5 A male prostitute. slang
"Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder."
Etymology
From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.
From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.
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