commerce

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Business - general words
addressable
addressable market
Age of Exploration
amortizable
anti-commercial
contract in/out
contract something out
contractual
contractually
coopetition
in business
initial public offering
IPO
lean
leanly
time-and-motion study
trade secret
transact
triple play
uberization

Examples from literature

He paid good salaries with no thought of commercialism. 
How does he regard the commercialism of his age? 
It is a genuine old border town, so far unspoiled by commercialism. 
That was good commercialism brought straight from France. 
We preach against commercialism but without great result. 

commercialism | American Dictionary

commercialism
noun[ U ]
us/kəˈmɜr·ʃəˌlɪz·əm/
the methods used to advertise and sell goods and services, esp. (disapproving) such methods used only and obviously for profit

commercialism | Business English

commercialism
noun[ U ]
 disapprovinguk /kəˈmɜːʃəlɪzəm/us
the practice of trying to make as much profit as possible and not caring about how this affects other people or places:
Greedy commercialism has turned this beautiful landscape into a mess of ugly apartment blocks and hotels.

Examples of commercialism

commercialism
The problem of commercialism is, indeed, a problem of health policy and economics.
But take it also as a perhaps alarming tendency of the medical profession under the influence of commercialism to be epistemologically blinded by self-interest.
Venality seems to have had one foot in the camp of abject cronyism, and the other in that of rampant commercialism.
It seems apparent that the interior conversation about commercialism is one that every professional must undertake.
She had the dedication to see the project through, even if her characteristic modesty and resistance to commercialism prevented its wider dissemination until now.
They are about the culture of commercialism that has engulfed medicine and, in the view of our authors, compromised its moral foundations.
In discussions of the upcoming album, the conventional ideology of authenticity, with its contrast between sincerity and commercialism, was largely absent from the e-mail list.
Just imagine the impact of commercialism on young minds in medicine, trying to gain their bearings and set their moral compass.
In doing so, the artists wanted to carve a new path that married commercialism, because of its appeal, with fun, thoughtful, internationalist art.
Other physicians, while disliking the constraints and moral compromises involved in commercialism, comply with them because the system seems overwhelming and inevitable.
More importantly, we wish to understand whether commerce and commercialism are compatible with the essential goals and work of medicine.
However, these essays are about much more than the connivance or complicity of physicians with commercialism.
However, the central problem of commercialism in medicine today, as in the past, is physician entrepreneurship.
Unfortunately, the ethical proscriptions have been emasculated by financial pressures, by increasing commercialism of academic medicine, and by profiteering.
All of our authors acknowledge that the problem of commercialism is extremely complex.
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