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commercialist

noun

Etymology

From commercial + -ist.

  1. derived from commercium
  2. derived from commercialis
  3. borrowed from commercial
  4. suffixed as commercialist — “commercial + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who engages in commerce.

    • To the more liberal education of commercialists, when compared with that of agriculturists, may justly be ascribed the commercial ascendancy over the agricultural community.
    • Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists.

  2. Someone who supports commercial activity.

    • Both sides--the "commercialists" and the "conservationists"--blitzed with outside endorsements, tours, advertisements, fliers, newspaper articles, and radio and TV publicity.

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