commercialist
English
Etymology
From commercial + -ist.
Noun
commercialist (plural commercialists)
- Someone who engages in commerce.
- 1848, A Summary Practical Elucidation of National Economy, page 16:
- To the more liberal education of commercialists, when compared with that of agriculturists, may justly be ascribed the commercial ascendancy over the agricultural community.
- 1917, Ernest Guy Stevens, Civilized Commercialism, page 149:
- Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists.
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- Someone who supports commercial activity.
- 1988 October 7, Harold Henderson, “Saved Form the Sandsuckers”, in Chicago Reader:
- Both sides--the "commercialists" and the "conservationists"--blitzed with outside endorsements, tours, advertisements, fliers, newspaper articles, and radio and TV publicity.
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