commercial

Meaning

Noun

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
2. A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
3. (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
4. (slang) A male prostitute.

Adj

1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
2. Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3. Designating such an airplane flight.

Concepts

commercial

mercantile

advertisement

trade

ad

advert

trading

profitable

commercial message

business

economic

financial

industrial

commercial-grade

commercial traveller

traveller

advertising spot

off-the-shelf

over-the-counter

store-bought

of business

marketable

materialistic

mercenary

monetary

pecuniary

salable

banking

finance

money

market

manufactured

mass-produced

commercial broadcast

merchant

economical

paying

representative

selling

for-profit

sales

commercialised

commercialized

advertizement

advertorial

plug

commerce

ads

placard

television advertisement

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈmɜːʃəl/

Etymology

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

Sentences

This was also the first commercial flight westward from Juneau .