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uncommercial

adj

Etymology

From un- + commercial.

  1. derived from commercium
  2. derived from commercialis
  3. borrowed from commercial
  4. formed as uncommercial — “un- + commercial”

Definitions

  1. Not commercial

    Not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable.

    • But Columbia Records executives deemed the idea uncommercial […] and instead proposed an album of lullabies.

  2. A spoof advertisement created for countercultural purposes.

    • This uncommercial was turned down by CBC on the grounds that it violated standards of taste […]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for uncommercial. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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