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Commercialize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To apply methods of business to for profit.

v. To do, exploit, or make chiefly for financial gain.

v. To sacrifice the quality of for profit.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to apply business methodology to something in order to profit

v. to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To render commercial in character, methods, or spirit; make a matter of trade.

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

v. exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality

v. make commercial

Word Usage

"There are two very different types of startup: one kind that evolves naturally, and one kind that's called into being to "commercialize" a scientific discovery."

Verb Form

commercialized commercializes commercializing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tap exploit change modify alter

Variant

commercialise