Commercialization

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Conversion to commercial character or uses: as, the commercialization of the military railways of India or Russia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. the act or process of making something commercial in character. See commercialize.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of commercializing
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce
  • Word Usage
    "Changing this is radical reform and unlikely as powerful lobbies -- mostly the communist parties -- in parliament are opposed to what they call the commercialization of education."
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