commercialized

commercialize | Business English

commercialize
verb[ Tusually passive ]
(also UKcommercialise)uk /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪz/ us /-ˈmɝː-/
COMMERCE
to make a product or service available for sale to the public:
How can this technology be commercialized?
disapproving to develop or organize something in order to make as much money as possible:
She says that the Olympics have become a commercialized extravaganza.

Examples of commercialize

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Once commercialized fuel markets exist, petroleum fuels can get their breakthrough if they can compete on price with fuelwood.
So there have been attempts to commercialize this, but we haven't been successful.
Advertisements, rebates, and price-wars were the techniques used to commercialize serum that was ultimately produced, marketed, and sold as an industrial product.
If frontier production was commercialized, farm gate prices would in general be lower than in central agricultural areas with better infrastructure and lower transportation cost.
So as lowincome agriculture becomes commercialized and industrializes, there is a natural tendency toward increasingly concentrated processing and distribution subsectors.
They proposed ranching schemes, market access, improved breeding techniques, and commercialized stock farming as solutions to the 'pastoral problem'.
It replaces openness with secrecy, it privatizes knowledge, and it replaces part of the social commons by commercializing discovery.
Moreover, all professional occupations, irrespective of the degree to which they are commercialized, obviously depend on demand for the services they provide.
Within the logic of the market, the goal of commercializing health services is to capture a market niche, to enlarge it, and to maximize profits.
Newly designed and commercialized abatement goods have one-period patent protection.
It is an institution that presides over, is deeply engaged in, and to some degree mirrors a commercializing society.
First, artisanal fishers are unlikely to transform their fisheries into large-scale, fully commercialized operations.
Due to the commercialized and specialized character of the economy in these areas, most people depended on wages.
Creativity in the realm of popular culture intended for wide commercialized dissemination has not received much serious scholarly attention.
Human beings invent, construct, produce, commercialize, implement, and apply technology, and as such are responsible for all these aspects of technology.
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