Definitions

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  • adjective not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises. Opposite of commercial.

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  • adjective Not engaged in commerce.

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  • adjective not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises

Etymologies

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non- +‎ commercial

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Examples

  • OK, $1 to $1.5 billion in what we call noncommercial copying of movies for family and friends.

    Gary Shapiro: Dear FCC, Please Don't Let Hollywood Break My TV 2009

  • Fans working in noncommercial spaces, often with limited cultural capital (though subcultural capital may be available to them), say the same things — writing is like a drug.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Distinction between commercial and noncommercial is also increasingly fraught.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Lee: Another proposal, Parchomovsky and Goldman — more detailed safe harbors, like 10 seconds of video in noncommercial work.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Q: Do you have an institutional policy on the use of your member companies 'music in noncommercial fan-films made from video-games?

    Boing Boing 2006

  • "It's part of keeping our integrity that our journalism remain noncommercial, and we're not engaged in advocacy in any way," Dvorkin explained.

    Boing Boing: June 16, 2002 - June 22, 2002 Archives 2002

  • "It's part of keeping our integrity that our journalism remain noncommercial, and we're not engaged in advocacy in any way,"

    Boing Boing: June 16, 2002 - June 22, 2002 Archives 2002

  • So-called noncommercial oil traders, which include players such as hedge funds, have been reversing once-bullish bets.

    Oil Goes to the Bears 2008

  • The first was that it involved what the court characterized as a noncommercial activity, and that was the possession of a firearm.

    CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006 2006

  • It was, moreover, strikingly noncommercial, which is not to say that it had a true disdain for matters of commerce, but that it looked that way with its ornate logo, the flat, greyish matte of its paper, and the un orthodoxy of its layout giving it a deceptive similarity to the

    Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

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