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commercially

commercially

41 3.4
In a way that businesses use to make money
  • adverb
  • /kəˈmɜrʃəli/
: comercialmente
  • Most commercially available brands of tea are not suitable to my palate.
  • commercially available
  • commercially viable
  • commercially important species

A lot of my work is rights challenged, so I don't have the ability to commercially sell it, make a deal.

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Examples

  • The idea had stayed with Malcolm, and he thought that it could be commercially viable.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • And so it's kind of cool to hold on to what is the very first commercially available version of this brand new technology.

  • But commercially, though, there are people who are selling this stuff.

  • This makes a commercially successful book.

  • Now for him, the result has been that it has been very rewarding and commercially successful.

  • I understand that African Child was commercially disappointing.

  • These services will launch commercially after verifying the performance.

  • It's a commercially available jumpsuit that I dyed down to get more appropriate color.

  • He is a commercially successful playwright.

  • The new smartphone was released commercially across multiple countries to meet high demand.

How Commercial

profitably
7 4.1
commercially
41 3.4

Surface Forms

commercially positive

Morphology

commercially = commercial (transparent) = commerce + ial + ly

The adverb is a regular formation from the adjective 'commercial' using the productive suffix '-ly'; 'commercial' itself is transparently related to 'commerce'.

Etymology

Commercially comes from commerce, built from the Latin parts com- and merx meaning 'with' and 'goods', and it is related to familiar words like merchant and market. So, to do something commercially is to do it for trade or money, as a business.