Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to commerce.
- adjective Engaged in commerce.
- adjective Relating to or being goods that are produced and distributed in large quantities.
- adjective Having profit as a chief aim.
- adjective Intended for or appealing to a large audience.
- adjective Sponsored by an advertiser or paid for by advertising.
- noun An advertisement in audio or video form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to commerce or trade; of the nature of commerce: as, commercial concerns; commercial relations; a commercial transaction.
- Carrying on commerce; characterized by devotion to commerce: as, a commercial community.
- Proceeding or accruing from trade: as, commercial benefits or profits.
- Devoted to commerce: as, a commercial career.
- Prepared for the market, or merely as an article of commerce; hence, not entirely or chemically pure: as, commercial soda, silver, etc.
- Synonyms See
mercantile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile.
- adjective a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business.
- adjective See under
Law . - adjective a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 71/2 or 8 inches.
- adjective negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank checks, etc.
- adjective an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
advertisement in a commonmedia format, usually radio or television. - adjective Of or pertaining to
commerce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
- adjective of or relating to commercialism
- adjective of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior
- noun a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unsolicited bulk email (UBE) or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with *commercial* content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.
Jerome R. Corsi's #1 bestseller "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality." Ann Althouse 2008
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BUT, where it gets distracting for me — and IMO bad for commercial fiction — is where the *commercial* aspect outweighs the *fiction* aspect.
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BUT, where it gets distracting for me — and IMO bad for commercial fiction — is where the *commercial* aspect outweighs the *fiction* aspect.
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I was wondering if you could give us the geographic breakout of the term commercial real estate and construction loans you have remaining on
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In our release, you can see that nonperforming loan category totaled $89.7 million as of December 31, and that category includes commercial construction project, commercial lot loans as well as the term commercial loans.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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In our release, you can see that nonperforming loan category totaled $89.7 million as of December 31, and that category includes commercial construction project, commercial lot loans as well as the term commercial loans.
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The client desired t have a high listing for the term commercial photographer and we have him at number three as of the writing of this article.
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For these reasons the term commercial speech should be interpreted broadly to encompass all expression by for-profit corporations.
The Situationist 2008
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The message of the commercial is also 100% correct.
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For those who got their teenage music from AM Radio, anything that goes longer than 3 minutes without a commercial is a rock opera.
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