noun
Meaning 1
The act of commercializing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonym: productization
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: productization
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
commercialization
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kəˌmɜːʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
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Received-Pronunciation: /kəˌmɜːʃələˈzeɪʃən/
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Canada, General-American: /kəˌmɝʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
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Canada, General-American: /kəˌmɝʃələˈzeɪʃən/
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Australian: /kəˌmɜːʃəlɑɪˈzæɪʃən/
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Australian: /kəˌmɜːʃələˈzæɪʃən/
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noun
Meaning 2
the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- my father considered the commercialization of Christmas to be a sacrilege
- the government tried to accelerate the commercialization of this development
- both companies will retain control over the commercialization of their own products
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: commercialisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exploitation, development
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English commercialize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English commercialization From commercialize + -ation or commercial + -ization.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: առեւտրայնացում (aṙewtraynacʻum) — the act of commercializing
- Catalan: comercialització — the act of commercializing
- Czech: komercializace — the act of commercializing
- Dutch: commercialisatie — the act of commercializing
- Finnish: kaupallistaminen — the act of commercializing
- French: commercialisation — the act of commercializing
- German: Kommerzialisierung — the act of commercializing
- Greek: εμπορευματοποίηση (emporevmatopoíisi) — the act of commercializing
- Indonesian: komersialisasi — the act of commercializing
- Indonesian: pengomersialan — the act of commercializing
- Italian: commercializzazione — the act of commercializing
- Kazakh: коммерцияландыру (kommersiälandyru) — the act of commercializing
- Norwegian Bokmål: kommersialisering — the act of commercializing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kommersialisering — the act of commercializing
- Occitan: comercializacion — the act of commercializing
- Polish: komercjalizacja — the act of commercializing
- Portuguese: comercialização — the act of commercializing
- Romanian: comercializare — the act of commercializing
- Romanian: comercializație — the act of commercializing
- Russian: коммерциализа́ция (kommercializácija) — the act of commercializing
- Slovak: komercializácia — the act of commercializing
- Spanish: comercialización — the act of commercializing
- Welsh: masnacheiddiad — the act of commercializing