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单词 commercial
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Definition of commercial in English:

commercial

adjective kəˈməːʃ(ə)lkəˈmərʃəl
  • 1Concerned with or engaged in commerce.

    a commercial agreement
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These agreements seek to apply commercial rules to all areas of policy, paying little regard to social or environmental impacts.
    • This is a private commercial agreement between them worth millions.
    • The structure of assets changed for another successive year, moving from treasury components to commercial banking.
    • To that end, in 1991 the government awarded banking licenses to 16 new commercial banks.
    • In the meantime, they and the proposed mobile providers would be engaged in commercial negotiations on rates.
    • Accordingly, he arranged new commercial agreements with nearly a dozen countries in western and central Europe during his first two years in office.
    • The report found that Bulgaria had strict and wide-ranging banking, tax and commercial secrecy laws.
    • Will technological advances, fuel costs and environmental concerns bring back commercial sailing for cargo ships?
    • Residents voiced their concerns on the increased commercial development in the area in June when news of another development first surfaced.
    • For example, we moved into investment banking, and when commercial banking was opened, we moved into commercial banking.
    • A commercial agreement is between the parties concerned and should have nothing to do with what anyone else wants.
    • Firstly, it seems that courts will protect commercial agreements made with the express object of preventing unwanted publicity.
    • He said that as a state company, they might engage in commercial activities that could help finance its efforts to keep rice prices stable.
    • Further, it is implicit in a commercial agreement of this kind that the terms of the new price structure are to be fair and reasonable as between the parties.
    • The contract is subject to detailed conditions as laid out in the commercial agreement between Samtel and Thomson.
    • However, it was arguably the activities of commercial rivals, not concerns about bad publicity, which finally made the bank back down.
    • These people were employed by the government in the lower levels of the colonial bureaucracy and engaged in local commercial activities.
    • His approach is to take over ageing sites, invest in them and turn them into modern, highly attractive commercial concerns.
    • It is now finalizing a commercial agreement with Spain's second largest airline.
    • Such banks conducted the usual banking activities but their activities were confined to purely commercial transactions.
    Synonyms
    trade, trading, business, private enterprise, mercantile, merchant, sales
    archaic merchandising
  • 2Making or intended to make a profit.

    commercial products
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since the release of their catchy debut single last summer, they've achieved an impressive balance of credibility and commercial success.
    • It is expected that a further €5m to €7m will be raised in commercial sponsorship.
    • Time to market is essential to the commercial success of the products, and is shrinking all the time.
    • He gathered a group of test subjects and asked them to look at a series of commercial products, rating how strongly they liked or disliked them.
    • The theory is that each entry is judged solely on the artistic merit of the music, rather than commercial success or the number of appearances in newspaper gossip columns.
    • The English league's commercial success rests on the quality of the product, which is often passionate, exciting and uncertain.
    • Given that, we are very happy with the final products and commercial success of the series.
    • They could have launched an appeal to save the library, solicited commercial sponsorship, sought the public's ideas on the best way forward.
    • By taking this native plant and breeding it, the company obtained the exclusive right to use this cultivated species of the plant in commercial products.
    • New York thus arguably owes its commercial success to one source: the ability to move goods and people from one place to another efficiently and en masse.
    • With his recent commercial success making him a household name, Pete is without a doubt one of this past year's biggest Aussie success stories.
    • Composers of ‘serious’ operas turned their hands to works of a light and tuneful nature intended for a wider audience and for commercial success.
    • Their record company will miss them in particular, as the band had enormous commercial success.
    • The commercial product costs £34; there is a free trial version.
    • All of the studies had some form of commercial sponsorship.
    • These cards are being traded as commercial products.
    • The remainder of the money is expected to come in grants and commercial sponsorship.
    • Alan's idea was that you do the academic side but you also try to make it commercial.
    • The maximization of value, profit and satisfaction are still the critical success factors in a commercial transaction.
    • The council was looking at the whole area of commercial sponsorship to cover some or all of the cost of the bins.
    Synonyms
    profit-oriented, money-oriented, commercialized, materialistic, mercenary
    1. 2.1 Having profit rather than artistic or other value as a primary aim.
      their work is too commercial
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There's an element that makes them very commercial yet still very cool.
      • Today most of the films are having more of commercial value than quality and are packed with themes and scenes that can match the taste of youth.
      • Rahul is seen as a ‘serious’ actor who stars in art films rather than mainstream commercial Bollywood releases.
      • They call it hardcore, rather than commercial world music.
      • Seems to have been written as a book to exploit commercial interest rather than having much of anything to say.
      • Except that the purists say it's not opera, but rather some commercial manipulation thereof.
      • I mean sometimes people get upset because we don't want to make something commercial.
      • He had choreographed Broadway shows, and had become commercial and flamboyant.
      • For the time being, such work pursues purely commercial purposes.
      • I think it's a shame if people think Easter has become too commercial.
      • They will be particularly disappointed if the field is found to be commercial after all.
      • However, as Sue is a long-time reader rather than a passing commercial opportunist, we'll let her get away with it.
      • It celebrates not only Christmas but the artistic and commercial peak of the golden age of popular song writing.
      • However, Williams insists any decision concerning the player's future will be based on football issues rather than his commercial value.
      • But rewind for just a second - when did student magazines become so commercial?
      Synonyms
      lucrative, moneymaking, money-spinning, profitable, profit-making, for-profit, remunerative, financially rewarding, fruitful, gainful, productive
      viable, cost-effective, economic, successful, commercially successful
  • 3(of television or radio) funded by the revenue from broadcast advertisements.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It also feels too much like watching a film on commercial television with advert breaks inserted.
    • Unlike commercial radio and television it is not a series of advertisements put on with programmes in between to keep them listening to the advertisements.
    • Similar reports have occasionally been broadcast on commercial television.
    • Digital Radio is already said to boast ten commercial stations and six national stations.
    • The news will be fed to local commercial radio stations to keep motorists up to speed with the latest traffic flows.
    • And one area where tastes are met and diversity can be seen in some ways is in the increasing strength of commercial talkback radio.
    • It is often ignored or insufficiently catered for by state funded national and commercial radio and television.
    • A show with few viewers won't stay on the air: On commercial television, no advertisers will buy space.
    • There are four commercial television stations in the market.
    • The premise on which the war was founded is something that has been analysed on commercial television and public television.
    • The adventure has been covered by a film crew for a documentary to be broadcast on satellite and commercial television stations across Italy.
    • In addition there are a growing number of local and regional commercial radio stations.
    • Henry brings to this position professional experience in both commercial radio and television journalism.
    • Every night commercial television is littered with multi-million pound advertisements for pension companies.
    • The service will be backed by a £5 million advertising campaign on commercial radio.
    • Offers of large amounts of money have already been made by commercial television stations and a women's magazine for her to tell her story.
    • It's been the lead on commercial television news bulletins most nights this week and on the front page of the local newspaper as well.
  • 4(of chemicals) supplied in bulk and not of the highest purity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most commercial chemical repellents contain either Deet or Permethrin.
    • In its most broad definition, Mr. James believes, to garden organically is to do so without the aid of commercial chemicals.
    • The shipping costs of both bulk chemicals and commercial formulas have been omitted.
    • An incorporated trait of resistance to a commercial pesticide might conceivably show up in other plants.
    • An alternative to the commercial fungicide would be a mixture of baking soda and water.
    • Many also apply commercial nitrogen fertilizer, since there's no way to know exactly how much nitrogen is in the manure.
    • Almost 50 percent of the world's commercial hydrogen now comes from natural gas.
noun kəˈməːʃ(ə)lkəˈmərʃəl
  • 1A television or radio advertisement.

    they looked like a family from a breakfast cereal commercial
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He allowed them to film him for a television commercial.
    • Both national and local talk radio hosts do more than carry commercials on their programs.
    • I nodded slowly, glancing back at the television which was thankfully showing commercials.
    • In fact, the company featured her in a television commercial promoting its contributions to these communities.
    • The only extra is a collection of commercials advertising the show on Japanese television.
    • Consider that when you see a commercial for a blatantly wasteful product.
    • He figures he has had a good run, even appearing in a Spanish television commercial for a sportswear company.
    • He is sure that the commercial will ‘encourage people to come here for a holiday.’
    • I remembered watching the trailer to the film in a television commercial.
    • Have you seen commercials on television imploring you to use less water?
    • Its mass marketing includes print advertisements and radio and television commercials.
    • Commuters said they wanted a quiet journey home rather than listening to advertising commercials and news broadcasts.
    • The company is re-running some of its classic beans TV commercials from next week and will ask the public for their say.
    • The television commercial will hit the screens tomorrow.
    • The second stage of advertising, which includes television commercials, is not expected until March.
    • The story reaches a dramatic moment, so it is time for a television commercial.
    • They must have heard about my business through the radio commercials that I've done.
    • The youth's parents said they got the idea to talk to their son after watching a government-funded commercial on television.
    • During a recent trip to California I found myself watching a television commercial about cars.
    • The extra minutes would also allow German broadcasters to jam in more commercials during televised matches.
    Synonyms
    advertisement, promotion, display
    informal ad, push, plug
    British informal advert
  • 2British dated A travelling sales representative.

    Synonyms
    commercial traveller, travelling salesman, salesman, saleswoman, agent, traveller

Derivatives

  • commerciality

  • noun kəməːʃɪˈalɪtikəˌmərʃiˈælədi
    • It seems that they tried to make the film more romantic in the name of commerciality.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This has been a slow process as it was initiated several years ago and has raised doubts about the commerciality of the project.
      • We are trying to encourage a greater degree of commerciality at race courses.
      • I would suggest that the cost of competing in the marketplace is forcing people who might otherwise prefer to be less obsessed with commerciality to focus on little else.
      • I love the gesture, but I hate the commerciality of a day that should be about love.

Rhymes

controversial, Herschel, inertial, infomercial
 
 

Definition of commercial in US English:

commercial

(also comm.)
adjectivekəˈmərSHəlkəˈmərʃəl
  • 1Concerned with or engaged in commerce.

    a commercial agreement
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His approach is to take over ageing sites, invest in them and turn them into modern, highly attractive commercial concerns.
    • These agreements seek to apply commercial rules to all areas of policy, paying little regard to social or environmental impacts.
    • It is now finalizing a commercial agreement with Spain's second largest airline.
    • To that end, in 1991 the government awarded banking licenses to 16 new commercial banks.
    • Will technological advances, fuel costs and environmental concerns bring back commercial sailing for cargo ships?
    • The report found that Bulgaria had strict and wide-ranging banking, tax and commercial secrecy laws.
    • However, it was arguably the activities of commercial rivals, not concerns about bad publicity, which finally made the bank back down.
    • These people were employed by the government in the lower levels of the colonial bureaucracy and engaged in local commercial activities.
    • This is a private commercial agreement between them worth millions.
    • For example, we moved into investment banking, and when commercial banking was opened, we moved into commercial banking.
    • Such banks conducted the usual banking activities but their activities were confined to purely commercial transactions.
    • In the meantime, they and the proposed mobile providers would be engaged in commercial negotiations on rates.
    • Further, it is implicit in a commercial agreement of this kind that the terms of the new price structure are to be fair and reasonable as between the parties.
    • Firstly, it seems that courts will protect commercial agreements made with the express object of preventing unwanted publicity.
    • He said that as a state company, they might engage in commercial activities that could help finance its efforts to keep rice prices stable.
    • Accordingly, he arranged new commercial agreements with nearly a dozen countries in western and central Europe during his first two years in office.
    • A commercial agreement is between the parties concerned and should have nothing to do with what anyone else wants.
    • The structure of assets changed for another successive year, moving from treasury components to commercial banking.
    • The contract is subject to detailed conditions as laid out in the commercial agreement between Samtel and Thomson.
    • Residents voiced their concerns on the increased commercial development in the area in June when news of another development first surfaced.
    Synonyms
    trade, trading, business, private enterprise, mercantile, merchant, sales
  • 2Making or intended to make a profit.

    commercial products
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The commercial product costs £34; there is a free trial version.
    • All of the studies had some form of commercial sponsorship.
    • They could have launched an appeal to save the library, solicited commercial sponsorship, sought the public's ideas on the best way forward.
    • Time to market is essential to the commercial success of the products, and is shrinking all the time.
    • New York thus arguably owes its commercial success to one source: the ability to move goods and people from one place to another efficiently and en masse.
    • By taking this native plant and breeding it, the company obtained the exclusive right to use this cultivated species of the plant in commercial products.
    • The maximization of value, profit and satisfaction are still the critical success factors in a commercial transaction.
    • These cards are being traded as commercial products.
    • Their record company will miss them in particular, as the band had enormous commercial success.
    • Since the release of their catchy debut single last summer, they've achieved an impressive balance of credibility and commercial success.
    • He gathered a group of test subjects and asked them to look at a series of commercial products, rating how strongly they liked or disliked them.
    • Given that, we are very happy with the final products and commercial success of the series.
    • The remainder of the money is expected to come in grants and commercial sponsorship.
    • With his recent commercial success making him a household name, Pete is without a doubt one of this past year's biggest Aussie success stories.
    • The theory is that each entry is judged solely on the artistic merit of the music, rather than commercial success or the number of appearances in newspaper gossip columns.
    • The council was looking at the whole area of commercial sponsorship to cover some or all of the cost of the bins.
    • The English league's commercial success rests on the quality of the product, which is often passionate, exciting and uncertain.
    • It is expected that a further €5m to €7m will be raised in commercial sponsorship.
    • Composers of ‘serious’ operas turned their hands to works of a light and tuneful nature intended for a wider audience and for commercial success.
    • Alan's idea was that you do the academic side but you also try to make it commercial.
    Synonyms
    profit-oriented, money-oriented, commercialized, materialistic, mercenary
    1. 2.1 Having profit rather than artistic or other value as a primary aim.
      their work is too commercial
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, as Sue is a long-time reader rather than a passing commercial opportunist, we'll let her get away with it.
      • Rahul is seen as a ‘serious’ actor who stars in art films rather than mainstream commercial Bollywood releases.
      • Except that the purists say it's not opera, but rather some commercial manipulation thereof.
      • For the time being, such work pursues purely commercial purposes.
      • Today most of the films are having more of commercial value than quality and are packed with themes and scenes that can match the taste of youth.
      • I think it's a shame if people think Easter has become too commercial.
      • But rewind for just a second - when did student magazines become so commercial?
      • They call it hardcore, rather than commercial world music.
      • However, Williams insists any decision concerning the player's future will be based on football issues rather than his commercial value.
      • I mean sometimes people get upset because we don't want to make something commercial.
      • It celebrates not only Christmas but the artistic and commercial peak of the golden age of popular song writing.
      • There's an element that makes them very commercial yet still very cool.
      • They will be particularly disappointed if the field is found to be commercial after all.
      • Seems to have been written as a book to exploit commercial interest rather than having much of anything to say.
      • He had choreographed Broadway shows, and had become commercial and flamboyant.
      Synonyms
      lucrative, moneymaking, money-spinning, profitable, profit-making, for-profit, remunerative, financially rewarding, fruitful, gainful, productive
  • 3(of television or radio) funded by the revenue from broadcast advertisements.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Henry brings to this position professional experience in both commercial radio and television journalism.
    • It is often ignored or insufficiently catered for by state funded national and commercial radio and television.
    • Digital Radio is already said to boast ten commercial stations and six national stations.
    • It's been the lead on commercial television news bulletins most nights this week and on the front page of the local newspaper as well.
    • In addition there are a growing number of local and regional commercial radio stations.
    • A show with few viewers won't stay on the air: On commercial television, no advertisers will buy space.
    • The adventure has been covered by a film crew for a documentary to be broadcast on satellite and commercial television stations across Italy.
    • There are four commercial television stations in the market.
    • And one area where tastes are met and diversity can be seen in some ways is in the increasing strength of commercial talkback radio.
    • Unlike commercial radio and television it is not a series of advertisements put on with programmes in between to keep them listening to the advertisements.
    • The service will be backed by a £5 million advertising campaign on commercial radio.
    • Similar reports have occasionally been broadcast on commercial television.
    • The news will be fed to local commercial radio stations to keep motorists up to speed with the latest traffic flows.
    • The premise on which the war was founded is something that has been analysed on commercial television and public television.
    • Offers of large amounts of money have already been made by commercial television stations and a women's magazine for her to tell her story.
    • It also feels too much like watching a film on commercial television with advert breaks inserted.
    • Every night commercial television is littered with multi-million pound advertisements for pension companies.
  • 4(of chemicals) supplied in bulk and not of the highest purity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An alternative to the commercial fungicide would be a mixture of baking soda and water.
    • Most commercial chemical repellents contain either Deet or Permethrin.
    • Almost 50 percent of the world's commercial hydrogen now comes from natural gas.
    • In its most broad definition, Mr. James believes, to garden organically is to do so without the aid of commercial chemicals.
    • An incorporated trait of resistance to a commercial pesticide might conceivably show up in other plants.
    • Many also apply commercial nitrogen fertilizer, since there's no way to know exactly how much nitrogen is in the manure.
    • The shipping costs of both bulk chemicals and commercial formulas have been omitted.
nounkəˈmərSHəlkəˈmərʃəl
  • A television or radio advertisement.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During a recent trip to California I found myself watching a television commercial about cars.
    • I nodded slowly, glancing back at the television which was thankfully showing commercials.
    • Both national and local talk radio hosts do more than carry commercials on their programs.
    • In fact, the company featured her in a television commercial promoting its contributions to these communities.
    • They must have heard about my business through the radio commercials that I've done.
    • The only extra is a collection of commercials advertising the show on Japanese television.
    • The second stage of advertising, which includes television commercials, is not expected until March.
    • He allowed them to film him for a television commercial.
    • The extra minutes would also allow German broadcasters to jam in more commercials during televised matches.
    • I remembered watching the trailer to the film in a television commercial.
    • He figures he has had a good run, even appearing in a Spanish television commercial for a sportswear company.
    • The company is re-running some of its classic beans TV commercials from next week and will ask the public for their say.
    • The youth's parents said they got the idea to talk to their son after watching a government-funded commercial on television.
    • Commuters said they wanted a quiet journey home rather than listening to advertising commercials and news broadcasts.
    • Its mass marketing includes print advertisements and radio and television commercials.
    • Consider that when you see a commercial for a blatantly wasteful product.
    • The story reaches a dramatic moment, so it is time for a television commercial.
    • The television commercial will hit the screens tomorrow.
    • He is sure that the commercial will ‘encourage people to come here for a holiday.’
    • Have you seen commercials on television imploring you to use less water?
    Synonyms
    advertisement, promotion, display
 
 
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