Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A commercial person; an adherent of commercialism.
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Examples
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He was an aristocrat, in the sense that all our public men were then aristocrats; but he was very emphatically what may be called a commercialist -- one might almost say Carthaginian.
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Is it hard (I am not being sarcastic; I really want to know) to just ignore the commercialist/cheesy/vaguely sexist stuff?
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A Creative Commons license simply does not provide Burning Man the direct ability to enforce against such use - something we've unfortunately run up against many times as we work to keep such commercialist wolves at bay.
Boing Boing 2009
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Is it hard (I am not being sarcastic; I really want to know) to just ignore the commercialist/cheesy/vaguely sexist stuff?
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So in the interest of interfaith harmony, peaceful coexistence, and tolerant egalitarian commercialist commodification, and in the tradition of my ancestors before me, allow me to re-post what should have been -- and hopefully will become -- very prophetic words.
Katie Halper: Christmas Presents for Jews: a Thank You Card Would Be Nice Katie Halper 2010
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So in the interest of interfaith harmony, peaceful coexistence, and tolerant egalitarian commercialist commodification, and in the tradition of my ancestors before me, allow me to re-post what should have been -- and hopefully will become -- very prophetic words.
Katie Halper: Christmas Presents for Jews: a Thank You Card Would Be Nice Katie Halper 2010
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So in the interest of interfaith harmony, peaceful coexistence, and tolerant egalitarian commercialist commodification, and in the tradition of my ancestors before me, allow me to re-post what should have been -- and hopefully will become -- very prophetic words.
Katie Halper: Christmas Presents for Jews: a Thank You Card Would Be Nice Katie Halper 2010
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"So naturally as a fiercely anti-consumerist and anti-commercialist enterprise their logo is an obvious choice to place on an American Apparel t-shirt promoting a bicycle fashion boutique."
BSNYC Product Review: King Kog Crass T-Shirt BikeSnobNYC 2008
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So naturally as a fiercely anti-consumerist and anti-commercialist enterprise their logo is an obvious choice to place on an American Apparel t-shirt promoting a bicycle fashion boutique.
BSNYC Product Review: King Kog Crass T-Shirt BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees elaborates a commercialist stance which defends the extremes of "private vice" or self-interest as the vehicle for ensuring the common good, despite the ostensible contradiction with conventional morality.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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