commercialized love

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective organized principally for financial gain.
  • adjective having its focus changed from non-commercial to commercial.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of commercialize.

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  • adjective organized principally for financial gain

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Examples

  • For them, Día de Muertos becoming commercialized is a good thing.

    Mexico's Día de Muertos celebration: Is it dying? 2008

  • For them, Día de Muertos becoming commercialized is a good thing.

    Mexico's Día de Muertos celebration: Is it dying? 2008

  • For them, Día de Muertos becoming commercialized is a good thing.

    Mexico's Día de Muertos celebration: Is it dying? 2008

  • Hardcore gamers are, I think, the most likely to call games 'dumbed down', 'sold out' or 'commercialized' - simply because these games don't fit their purist notions of what makes a good game.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Jackson - I find it quite difficult to criticize the man for a 'commercialized' apporoach when this 'commercialized' approached has caused millions of Catholics around the world to leave the Church, either into protestantism or sin.

    "The Playboy and the Pope" 2009

  • But this is to confuse the practice of a certain kind of commercialized storytelling with realism, the latter of which probably becomes more genuine the farther away it gets from storytelling.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • But this is to confuse the practice of a certain kind of commercialized storytelling with realism, the latter of which probably becomes more genuine the farther away it gets from storytelling.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • Painting also suffered the same fate when the presumption of the Egyptians "commercialized" that incomparable art.

    Satyricon 2007

  • I realize that it's probably too "commercialized" for literary artistes and I'm sure they're not all great works.

    Archive 2007-11-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2007

  • I realize that it's probably too "commercialized" for literary artistes and I'm sure they're not all great works.

    Quill Awards tinylittlelibrarian 2007

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