Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

commercialist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-mer-cial-ist
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who engages in commerce.

noun

Someone who supports commercial activity.

Example Sentences

"To the more liberal education of commercialists, when compared with that of agriculturists, may justly be ascribed the commercial ascendancy over the agricultural community."
"Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists."
"Both sides--the "commercialists" and the "conservationists"--blitzed with outside endorsements, tours, advertisements, fliers, newspaper articles, and radio and TV publicity."

Etymology

From commercial + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: commercial

Inflected Forms

commercialists (plural)

Derived Forms

commercialistic

Questions

What does commercialist mean?: Someone who engages in commerce.
Where does commercialist come from?: From commercial + -ist.

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