COMMERCIALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commercialize mean? 

• COMMERCIALIZE (verb)
  The verb COMMERCIALIZE has 2 senses:

1. exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality

2. make commercial

  Familiarity information: COMMERCIALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMERCIALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they commercialize    ... he / she / it commercializes   
Past simple: commercialized   
Past participle: commercialized   
-ing form: commercializing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

The hotel owners are commercializing the beaches

Hypernyms (to "commercialize" is one way to...):

exploit; tap (draw from; make good use of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make commercial

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

commercialise; commercialize; market

Context example:

Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life

Hypernyms (to "commercialize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

commercialization (the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce)

 Context examples 

The authors propose that this method could be used by local authorities, so fishermen who catch and commercialize endangered species are sanctioned.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

BioCarta aims to be the leader in the development and commercialization of new technology for functional proteomics by creating an international organization geared towards identifying, acquiring, and commercializing novel products.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)