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commercial

noun
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/UK/kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/CA/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Late Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Late Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Late Latin -ium Late Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

  1. derived from commercium
  2. derived from commercialis
  3. borrowed from commercial

Definitions

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

    • She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.

  2. A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.

  3. A commercial traveller.

    • 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.
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A male prostitute.

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

    2. Of or pertaining to commerce.

      • A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

    3. Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.

    4. Designating such an airplane flight.

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Derived

commercial break, documercial, fictomercial, infomercial, intromercial, e-commercial, aerocommercial, anticommercial, asset-backed commercial paper, commercial at, commercial bank, commercial banking, Commercial End, commercialese, commercial invoice, commercialise, commercialism, commercialist, commerciality, commercial law, commercial letter of credit, commercially, commercial model, commercial off-the-shelf, commercial paper, commercial room, countercommercial, noncommercial, non-commercial, politicocommercial, resimercial, semicommercial, supercommercial, ultracommercial, uncommercial

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at commercial. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01commercial02radio03allows04allow05suitable06task07undertaken08undertake09traffic

A definitional loop anchored at commercial. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at commercial

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA