1. COMMERCE to make something available to buyers for the first time:
• He doesn't see any rush to commercialize the Sunpower technology for household use.
2. disapproving to use something in a way that makes as much money as possible, without considering its quality:
• the growing tendency to commercialize museums
— commercialized also commercialised adjective :
• this ever more commercialised world
— commercialization also commercialisation noun [uncountable] :
• Money and commercialisation are damaging the image of sport.
Financial and business terms. 2012.