commercial

commercial

English

Etymology

commerce +‎ -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɜːʃəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɝʃəl/

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Noun

commercial (plural commercials)

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
2. (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
3. (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.

4. (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

• advertisement

Hyponyms

• infomercial

Derived terms

• commercial break
• documercial
• e-commercial
• infomercial
• intromercial

 

Translations

advertisement in a common media format

Arabic: إِعْلَان تِجَارِيّ‎ m (ʾiʿlān tijāriyy) Armenian: գովազդ (hy) (govazd) Bulgarian: рекла́ма (bg) f (rekláma) Catalan: anunci (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 廣告／广告 (zh) (guǎnggào) Czech: reklama (cs) f Danish: reklame (da) c Dutch: reclamespot (nl) Faroese: lýsing f Finnish: mainos (fi) French: publicité (fr) f Galician: anuncio m German: Werbung (de) f Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi) Hebrew: פִּרְסוֹמֶת‎ (he) f (pirsómet) Hungarian: reklám (hu) Japanese: コマーシャル (komāsharu), シーエム (shīemu), ＣＭ (shīemu) Macedonian: рекла́ма f (rekláma), ЕПП n (EPP) Malay: iklan (ms) Norwegian: reklame m, annonse m Persian: آگهی بازرگانی‎ (âgahi ye bâzargâni), آنونس‎ (ânons) Polish: reklama (pl) f Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m, comercial (pt) m, propaganda (pt) f Romanian: reclamă (ro) f Russian: рекла́ма (ru) f (rekláma) Slovak: reklama f Spanish: anuncio (es) m, comercial (es) m Turkish: reklam (tr) Ukrainian: рекла́ма (uk) f (rekláma)

Adjective

commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)

1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, “chapter I”, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     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.

2. (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3. (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.

Derived terms

• commercial at
• commercial bank
• commercial banking
• commercial invoice
• commercial model
• commercial off-the-shelf
• commercial paper
• commercial room
• e-commercial
• non-commercial

 

Translations

of or pertaining to commerce

Arabic: تِجَارِيّ‎ (tijāriyy) Armenian: առեւտրային (hy) (aṙewtrayin) Bulgarian: комерсиален (bg) (komersialen), търговски (tǎrgovski) Catalan: comercial (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 商業／商业 (zh) (shāngyè) Czech: obchodní (cs), komerční (cs) Danish: handels-, erhvervs-, kommerciel (da) Dutch: commercieel (nl) Esperanto: komerca Finnish: kaupallinen (fi) French: commercial (fr) Galician: comercial m or f Georgian: კომერციალური (ḳomercialuri), სავაჭრო (savač̣ro) German: kommerziell (de) Greek: εμπορικός (el) (emporikós) Ancient: ἐμπορικός (emporikós) Hebrew: מסחרי‎ m (miskhari), מסחרית‎ f (miskharit) Hindi: वाणिज्यिक (vāṇijyik) Hungarian: kereskedelmi (hu) Indonesian: komersial (id) Italian: commerciale (it) Japanese: 商業の (ja) (しょうぎょうの, shōgyō no) Kazakh: коммерциялық (kommersiälyq) Latvian: tirdzniecisks, veikalniecisks Macedonian: стопански m (stopanski), трговски m (trgovski), комерција́лен m (komercijálen) Malay: perdagangan (ms), komersil Malayalam: വാണിജ്യ (vāṇijya) Maori: arumoni Persian: تجاری‎ (fa) (tejâri) Polish: komercyjny (pl) Portuguese: comercial (pt) Romanian: comercial (ro) Russian: торго́вый (ru) (torgóvyj), комме́рческий (ru) (kommérčeskij) Serbo-Croatian: komercijalan (sh), trgovački (sh) Spanish: comercial (es) Tagalog: kalakalin Ukrainian: комерційний (uk) (komercijnyj)

Related terms

• commerce
• commercialize
• precommercial

Further reading

• commercial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• commercial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin commerciālis, from Latin commercium; equivalent to commerce +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal/

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• Homophones: commerciale, commerciales

Adjective

commercial (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)

1. commercial

Derived terms

• centre commercial
• fonds commercial
• guerre commerciale
• marque commerciale

 

Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaux)

1. a salesman, sales representative

Further reading

• “commercial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

1. Obsolete spelling of comercial

Adjective

commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

1. Obsolete spelling of comercial