Commercial

//kəˈmɝ.ʃəl// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
  3. 3
    Designating such an airplane flight.
Adjective
  1. 1
    connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises wordnet
  2. 2
    profit oriented wordnet
  3. 3
    of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior wordnet
  4. 4
    of or relating to commercialism wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

    "She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal."

  2. 2
    a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television wordnet
  3. 3
    A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
  4. 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. 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

Etymology 1

From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

Etymology 2

From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

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