COMMERCIALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commercialise mean? 

• COMMERCIALISE (verb)
  The verb COMMERCIALISE has 1 sense:

1. make commercial

  Familiarity information: COMMERCIALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMERCIALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they commercialise    ... he / she / it commercialises   
Past simple: commercialised   
Past participle: commercialised   
-ing form: commercialising   

Sense 1

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 "commercialise" 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:

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