commercial
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English
Etymology
commerce + -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.
Pronunciation
Noun
commercial (plural commercials)
- An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
- She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
- (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
- (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
- 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:
- I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me.
- (slang) A male prostitute.
- 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story, page 133:
- Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.
- 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs, page 39:
- With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money.
Hypernyms
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Derived terms
Translations
advertisement in a common media format
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Adjective
commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)
- Of or pertaining to commerce.
- 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company , →OCLC:
- A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
- (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to commerce
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Related terms
Further reading
- “commercial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “commercial”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin commerciālis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal/
audio (file) - Homophones: commerciale, commerciales
Adjective
commercial (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)
Derived terms
Noun
commercial m (plural commerciaux)
Further reading
- “commercial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
commercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
Adjective
commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)