commercially
commercial
noun[ C ]
mainly USuk /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ us /kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
B1
an advertisement that is broadcast on television or radio: （电视或广播里的）商业广告
He went to make a drink during the commercials.
commercial forShe was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
a car/fast food commercial

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Advertising and marketing
ad
ad agency
adman
adverse publicity
advert
customer relationship management
demographics
detoxify
differentiator
dogfooding
o.n.o.
on-brand
opinion mining
overexpose
overexposure
trade dress
unadvertised
unbilled
unbranded
unmarketable

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Broadcasting: programmes & other broadcasts

commercial | American Dictionary

commercial
noun[ C ]
us/kəˈmɜr·ʃəl/
a paid advertisement on radio or television:
We all ran to get something to eat during the commercials.
commercial
adjective
us/kəˈmɜr·ʃəl/
intended to make money, or relating to a business intended to make money:
The movie was a commercial success (= it made money), but the critics hated it.

commercially

adverbus/kəˈmɜr·ʃə·li/

commercial | Business English

commercial
adjective
 COMMERCEuk /kəˈmɜːʃəl/us
relating to businesses and their activities:
Planning issues continue to stall the company's proposed commercial development.
commercial sales/services/transactions etc.
used to describe a product or service that can be bought by the public:
The airport handles 663 commercial flights a day.
[ before noun ]
for making a profit or relating to making a profit:
The business was never intended to be a commercial enterprise.
commercial success/valueSome traditional producers are finally enjoying commercial success.
[ before noun ]
used to describe radio or television that is paid for by the advertisements it broadcasts:
The commission, which licenses and regulates commercial TV, ordered the ad off air.
disapproving used to describe a product, especially a record, film, or book, which is made to make a profit rather than be of a high artistic quality:
Their music is a little too commercial for me.
commercial
noun[ C ]
uk /kəˈmɜːʃəl/us
MARKETING
an advertisement that is broadcast on television or radio:
American manufacturers have produced a series of TV commercials highlighting manufacturing successes.
 commercials
STOCK MARKET
shares in a company that sells goods to consumers:
Commercials ended the year down 3.5%.

Examples of commercial

commercial
If the project generates financial revenues, but they are lower than for purely commercial investments, then perhaps an interest rate subsidy would be most appropriate.
The most serious threat to these peoples is represented by the commercial development of strategically important reserves of mineral resources.
The cost of purpose-built manufacturing facilities and chemical synthesis are a critical barrier to the commercial development of many potential pesticides.
However, unlike in the highlands, only the big commercial farmers were present in the lowlands.
Much medical education still focuses predominantly on drug treatment, and commercial interests continue to fuel this to the detriment of non-drug treatments.
As pointed out earlier, higher priority may be given to directing commercial credit to non-environmental investments.
These include commercial maize production, horticulture, tree crops, dairy, and cattle ranching.
Commercial success in these crops, and introduction of new corn varieties, precipitated steady land-use intensification.
This paper has described detailed monitoring of commercial chickpea crops and highlighted aspects of the system that could limit or enhance production.
These are: high or bourgeois art; commercial or popular art; and folk art.
In many cases, older people's property and assets are utilised in commercial activities by their relatives, particularly their children.
By this time change within the industrial, commercial, residential and political structure of the city was reshaping the city's medieval form.
Such 'histories' proposed three or four stages from 'savage' hunters, through 'barbarian' pastoralists and 'civilised' farmers, to the writer's contemporary commercial world.
The media are not a single entity, but having said that, newspapers and commercial television stations are businesses, motivated by economic concerns.
Studies are needed to define the circumstances in which commercial systems are economically viable and to assess their environmental impact.
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