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say it: kuh-MUR-shuh-lahyz
commercialize is a verb meaning "exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality". It carries 2 recorded senses.
exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality
“The hotel owners are commercializing the beaches”
make commercial
“Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life”
commerce
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 commercialize 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.