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Commercialization

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the act of commercializing

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. the act or process of making something commercial in character. See commercialize.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Conversion to commercial character or uses: as, the commercialization of the military railways of India or Russia.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

development exploitation

Variant

commercialize commercialisation

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

industrialization urbanization collectivization mechanization modernization