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 is pronounced /kəˈmɝʃəˌlɪzəm/ — kuh-MUR-shuh-liz-uhm. 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.