commercialize com‧mer‧cial‧ize [kəˈmɜːʆəlaɪz ǁ -ɜːr-] also commercialise verb [transitive]
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.
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commercialize UK US also UK commercialise) /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪz/ US /-ˈmɝː-/ verb [T usually passive]
► COMMERCE to make a product or service available for sale to the public: »
How can this technology be commercialized?
► DISAPPROVING to develop or organize something in order to make as much money as possible: »
She says that the Olympics have become a commercialized extravaganza.
Financial and business terms. 2012.