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Commercial

adjective

Connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises. "Commercial TV" , "Commercial diamonds" Antonym: noncommercial.

Of or relating to commercialism. "Commercial paper" , "Commercial law"

Of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior. Synonym: commercial-grade. "Commercial oxalic acid"

noun

A commercially sponsored ad on radio or television. Synonym: commercial message.

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"Commercial" Quotes from Famous Books

... Commercial-street one fine day, I observed a lady standing alone in the middle of the sidewalk, with no obvious business there, but with apparently no intention of going on. She was outwardly very calm, and seemed ...

— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile

... great many of you have been crowded out of the Dimension and invaded the earth you will do so and so—" something preposterous and ironical. She coldly dissented, and at once the irony appeared as gross as the jocularity of a commercial traveller. Sometimes she signified: "Yes, that is what we shall do;" signified it without speaking—by some gesture perhaps, I hardly know what. There was something impressive—something almost regal—in this manner of hers; it was rather ...

— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... or reproductions become merely second-hand pieces as soon as you have bought and put them to use. Only at distinct financial loss can you change them in six months or a year for others. That is a good commercial reason for the growing tendency to furnish with antiques. We believe, however, that the real reason is the effect of individuality gained by the use of pieces made by old craftsmen a century or more ago when things were ...

— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

... sloop before she left England a Mr. Thomas Aldridge, an expert judge of pictures, his exact description for this voyage being as supercargo, a term which signifies an officer in a trading vessel whose duty it is to manage the sales and superintend all the commercial concerns of the voyage. Having arrived, then, off Calais, Cheney, Aldridge, and some of the crew proceeded ashore and, guided by the art expert, went to a certain Monsieur Dessein, who kept an hotel ...

— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton

... morning; shall go back next Monday night. * * * Scott is working mostly among the commercial men. He switched Senator Spencer of Alabama and Walker of Virginia this week, but you know they can be switched back with the proper arrangements when they are wanted; but Scott is asking for so much that he can promise largely to pay when he wins, and you know I keep on high ground." (No. ...

— How Members of Congress Are Bribed • Joseph Moore

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