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 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective organized principally for financial gain
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Examples
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For them, Día de Muertos becoming commercialized is a good thing.
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For them, Día de Muertos becoming commercialized is a good thing.
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For them, Día de Muertos becoming commercialized is a good thing.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Painting also suffered the same fate when the presumption of the Egyptians "commercialized" that incomparable art.
Satyricon 2007
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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
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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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