commercialize
verb /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪz/
/kəˈmɜːrʃəlaɪz/
(British English also commercialise)
[often passive] (often disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they commercialize | /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪz/ /kəˈmɜːrʃəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it commercializes | /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪzɪz/ /kəˈmɜːrʃəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple commercialized | /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪzd/ /kəˈmɜːrʃəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle commercialized | /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪzd/ /kəˈmɜːrʃəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form commercializing | /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪzɪŋ/ /kəˈmɜːrʃəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- to use something to try to make a profit, especially in a way that other people do not approve of
- be/become commercialized Their music has become very commercialized in recent years.
- Christmas is far too commercialized now.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCommercialize is used with these nouns as the object:- invention