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say it: kuh-MUR-shuhl
commercial is an adjective and noun meaning "connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises". It carries 4 recorded senses.
connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
“commercial trucker”
“commercial TV”
“commercial diamonds”
of or relating to commercialism
“a commercial attache”
“commercial paper”
“commercial law”
of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior
“commercial grade of beef”
“commercial oxalic acid”
a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commercial come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.