commercialised

1. 1.

   organized principally for financial gain

   “Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle”

   Synonymscommercialized

   Similarcommercial

Questions about commercialised

What does commercialised mean?

commercialised means "organized principally for financial gain".

How many syllables are in commercialised?

commercialised has 5 syllables: com-mer-cia-li-sed. The stress falls on "cia".

What is another word for commercialised?

Close synonyms include commercialized. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commercialised a common word?

commercialised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.