Overcommercialize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make excessively commercial. transitive

    "It was unwieldy, included a fatal bombing at Centennial Olympic Park and is largely considered the most overcommercialized Olympics in the history of the modern Games."

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"It was unwieldy, included a fatal bombing at Centennial Olympic Park and is largely considered the most overcommercialized Olympics in the history of the modern Games."

Etymology

From over- + commercialize.

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