Commercial

Quick meaning: Commercial is a noun meaning An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

Meaning

An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

More Meanings

1. (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
2. Of or pertaining to commerce.
3. (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
4. (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.
5. (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
6. (slang) A male prostitute.

Example Sentences

She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.

I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.

Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.

Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me.

Word Forms

• commercials

Synonyms for commercial

Depending on context, synonyms include inferior, mercenary, technical, mercantile, commercialized.

Antonyms for commercial

Common opposites include noncommercial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include technical, business, mercantile, trade, moneymaking, mercenary.

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