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say it: kuh-mur-shuh-li-ZAY-shuhn
commercialization is a noun meaning "the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce
“my father considered the commercialization of Christmas to be a sacrilege”
“the government tried to accelerate the commercialization of this development”
“both companies will retain control over the commercialization of their own products”
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 commercialization 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.