(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.
Docklands in its heyday was a major centre of industrial and ~ activity...
Attacks were reported on police, vehicles and ~ premises.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
Commercial organizations and activities are concerned with making money or profits, rather than, for example, with scientific research or providing a public service.
British Rail has indeed become more ~ over the past decade...
Conservationists in Chile are concerned over the effect of ~ exploitation of forests...
Whether the project will be a ~ success is still uncertain.
ADJ
~ly
British Aerospace reckon that the plane will be ~ly viable if 400 can be sold...
Insulin is produced ~ly from animals...
ADV: usu ADV adj, ADV with v, also ADV with cl
3.
A ~ product is made to be sold to the public.
They are the leading manufacturer in both defence and ~ products.
ADJ: ADJ n
~ly
It was the first ~ly available machine to employ artificial intelligence.
ADV: usu ADV adj, also ADV with v
4.
A ~ vehicle is a vehicle used for carrying goods, or passengers who pay.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
5.
Commercial television and radio are paid for by the broadcasting of advertisements, rather than by the government.
...Classic FM, the first national ~ radio station.
? public service
ADJ: usu ADJ n
6.
Commercial is used to describe something such as a film or a type of music that it is intended to be popular with the public, and is not very original or of high quality.
There’s a feeling among a lot of people that music has become too ~.
ADJ
7.
A ~ is an advertisement that is broadcast on television or radio.
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