COMMERCIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commercial mean? 

• COMMERCIAL (noun)
  The noun COMMERCIAL has 1 sense:

1. a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television

  Familiarity information: COMMERCIAL used as a noun is very rare.

• COMMERCIAL (adjective)
  The adjective COMMERCIAL has 3 senses:

1. connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises

2. of or relating to commercialism

3. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior

  Familiarity information: COMMERCIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMERCIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercially sponsored ad on radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

commercial; commercial message

Hypernyms ("commercial" is a kind of...):

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commercial"):

infomercial; informercial (a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary)

Derivation:

commercial (connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises)

• COMMERCIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises

Context example:

commercial diamonds

Similar:

commercialised; commercialized (organized principally for financial gain)

mercantile (relating to or characteristic of trade or traders)

mercantile; mercenary; moneymaking (profit oriented)

technical (resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations)

Attribute:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Antonym:

noncommercial (not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises)

Derivation:

commerce (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

commercial (a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to commercialism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

commercial law

Pertainym:

commerce (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Derivation:

commerce (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior

Synonyms:

commercial; commercial-grade

Context example:

commercial oxalic acid

Similar:

inferior (of low or inferior quality)

Derivation:

commerce (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

 Context examples 

A commercial organization contracted by a client to perform one or more research-related functions.

(Contract Research Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

A for-profit business, including individuals operating commercial enterprises as sole proprietorships, limited and general partnerships, and corporations; or a not-for-profit organization, including private educational and health services institutions, cooperatives, and corporations.

(Commercial Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who acts as a channel for communication with a commercial enterprise which produces substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

(Drug Company Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

A commercial combination preparation containing guaifenesin and phenylephrine hydrochloride with expectorant and decongestant activities.

(Entex, NCI Thesaurus)

A commercial preparation, by Novartis, with laxative activity.

(Ex-Lax, NCI Thesaurus)

Stability data for a commercial lot.

(Commercial Lot, Food and Drug Administration)

C. beijerinckii is found in the soil and feces and is an important organism used in commercial solvent production.

(Clostridium beijerinckii, NCI Thesaurus)

In a situational report of NDRRMC, Wednesday's tremor damaged 143 buildings including 70 schools, 40 houses, seven health facilities, two worshiping areas, and ten commercial buildings.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

And compared with a previous commercial wire-based method of detection, their new device found 500 to 5,000 more tumor cells.

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Electrospinning is used in other industries to wrap, filter and insulate various commercial products.

(Scientists Develop Spray Gun to Paint Bandages onto Wounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)