say it: kuh-MUR-shuh-liz-uhm
commercialism is a noun meaning "transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)". It carries one recorded sense.
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
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 commercialism 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.