commercial

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises

   commercial trucker

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to commercialism

   a commercial attache

3. 3
   noun

   An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

   She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.

4. 4
   noun

   A commercial traveller.

   I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.

5. 5
   noun

   A male prostitute.

   Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.

6. 6
   adj

   Of or pertaining to commerce.

   A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

7. 7
   adj

   of the kind or quality used in commerce

8. 8
   noun

   a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Late Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Late Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Late Latin -ium Late Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.