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adjective

commercialized adj.

Organized principally for financial gain.

Having its focus changed from non-commercial to commercial; as, Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle.

Synonyms: commercialised.

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Etymology of 'Commercialized'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Commercialized" Quotes from Famous Books

... indebted to our commercialized newspapers and magazines for our distorted views of human life and for the cynicism that it is the momentary fashion to affect, but that is always disfiguring to the mind that harbors it. Certainly we can get no such views and ...

— Morals in Trade and Commerce • Frank B. Anderson

... a novel, or a short story with a happy ending is necessarily a commercialized and inartistic ...

— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... youth of this country. The elimination of the saloon has made possible the development of millions of young people free from the particular type of sinfulness for which the saloon was responsible. In like manner, the elimination of commercialized vice has rendered our cities incomparably safer for our young men and women than they once were. The substitution of wholesome amusement for young folks in good environment for the unregulated commercialized amusements once the sole source of recreation ...

— Church Cooperation in Community Life • Paul L. Vogt

... two peninsulas, there was a spot, now commercialized into a producing oil well, where the gas came to the surface with sufficient force to upset small boats. Many of the oil wells are spouters for a long time after they are first bored, and when they cease to spout they can frequently ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

... press, or the caustic utterances of our reputable newspapers, are tame indeed before the daily cyclones of a time when everybody who did not love his political neighbor hated him with a deadly virulence of which we know little to-day. We may be improved, merely commercialized, or more diffuse in our interests. In those days every man was a politician first and ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

Words linked to "Commercialized" : commercial, commercialised