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commercialize

[ kuh-mur-shuh-lahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, com·mer·cial·ized, com·mer·cial·iz·ing.

to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality:
to commercialize one's artistic talent.
to offer for sale; make available as a commodity.

commercialize

/ kəˈmɜːʃəˌlaɪz /

com·mer·cial·i·za·tion [k, uh, -mur-sh, uh, l-, uh, -, zey, -sh, uh, n], noun
com·mer·cial·iz·er noun
de·com·mer·cial·i·za·tion noun
de·com·mer·cial·ize verb (used with object) decommercialized decommercializing
o·ver·com·mer·cial·i·za·tion noun
o·ver·com·mer·cial·ize verb (used with object) overcommercialized overcommercializing
qua·si-com·mer·cial·ized adjective
un·com·mer·cial·ized adjective

Having received a patent on the technology in 1986, Hull founded 3D Systems to commercialize his discoveries.

In 1880 he began to commercialize a two-cycle stationary engine.

To thus commercialize pleasure is as monstrous as it is to commercialize art.

We give money prizes for work in our schools and thus strive to commercialize the things of the mind and of the spirit.

There are those, of course, who will commercialize this misconception of education by publishing books of questions and answers.

It remained for this industrial and much-vaunted age systematically to commercialize vice.

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