Commercialize

Quick meaning: Commercialize is a verb meaning (transitive) To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.

Meaning

(transitive) To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
2. (transitive) To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: productize

the work required not only to invent a device but also to commercialize it

a market district formerly served mainly by artisans but increasingly commercialized for mass tourism

finding the right balance in paying for water infrastructure (treatment plants and pipe networks) but not commercializing water to the point of excluding low-income people from adequate access to a basic necessity

Word Forms

• commercializes
• commercializing
• commercialized
• commercialise

Synonyms for commercialize

Depending on context, synonyms include productize, market.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include market, trade, sell, transact, bring, commercialise.

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