Meaning & use
commercialized
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Meanings
adjectivecomparabledisapproving
Shaped mainly by the wish to make money, often so that the original quality or meaning is lost.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after be: a commercialized holiday.
Patterns
- become commercialized
- be too commercialized
Many people think the holiday has become too commercialized.
The once quiet village is now a commercialized tourist spot.
Fans complained the sport was overly commercialized.
adjectivebefore a noun
Turned into a product that can be sold for profit.
Grammar: Neutral in tone: a commercialized technology.
Patterns
- commercialized version of something
The lab sold a commercialized version of its invention.
The commercialized product reached stores last year.
Several commercialized medicines came from the research.
Common combinations
- highly commercialized
- The festival is highly commercialized.
- over-commercialized
- Critics call the event over-commercialized.
- commercialized holiday
- A commercialized holiday can feel empty.
- commercialized sport
- Football is a commercialized sport.
- fully commercialized
- The technology is fully commercialized.
Synonyms and how they differ
- commercial
- Commercial is a neutral word about business, whereas commercialized often hints at lost authenticity.
- mass-market
- Mass-market describes goods made for large audiences without the negative tone of commercialized.
- profit-driven
- Profit-driven stresses the motive for money, while commercialized describes what the thing has become.
- marketed
- Marketed only means promoted for sale, so it is milder than commercialized.
Opposites
Word family
- commerce noun
- the buying and selling of goods
- commercial adjective
- relating to business or profit
- commercialize verb
- to turn into something sold for profit
- commercialization noun
- the process of making something commercial
- commercially adverb
- in a way relating to business
Commonly confused: commercialized or commercial?
commercialized vs commercial
As a noun, commercial means an advertisement, while commercialized describes a thing made profit-driven.
Practice
Which sentence suggests criticism?
Choose one answer.
Too commercialized criticizes a place for putting profit over character. The others are neutral statements of business.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “commercialized”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.