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com·mer·cial·ize

 (kə-mûr′shə-līz′)
tr.v. com·mer·cial·ized, com·mer·cial·iz·ing, com·mer·cial·iz·es
1. To apply methods of business to for profit.
2.
a. To do, exploit, or make chiefly for financial gain.
b. To sacrifice the quality of for profit.
com·mer′cial·i·za′tion (-shə-lĭ-zā′shən) n.
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Noun1.commercialization - the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce; "my father considered the commercialization of Christmas to be a sacrilege"; "the government tried to accelerate the commercialization of this development"; "both companies will retain control over the commercialization of their own products"
commercialisation
exploitation, development - the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"
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Translations

commercialization

[kəˌmɜːʃələɪˈzeɪʃən] N → comercialización f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

commercialization

commercialisation [kəˌmɜːrʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən] (British) n (pejorative) → commercialisation f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

commercialization

n → Kommerzialisierung f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

commercialization

[kəˌmɜːʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃ/ən] n (pej) → commercializzazione f
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