commercialize
/kəˈmɚʃəˌlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
Transitive verb
verb
To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).
Transitive verb
verb
To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: productize"
- "the work required not only to invent a device but also to commercialize it"
- "finding the right balance in paying for water infrastructure (treatment plants and pipe networks) but not commercializing water to the point of excluding low-income people from adequate access to a basic necessity"
- "a market district formerly served mainly by artisans but increasingly commercialized for mass tourism"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English commercialize From commercial + -ize.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈmɚʃəˌlaɪz/
- British English: /kəˈmɜːʃəˌlaɪz/