verb
- Exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality.
- usage: "The hotel owners are commercializing the beaches"
- synonyms: commercialize
- Make commercial.
- usage: "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"
- synonyms: commercialize, commercialise, market
adjective
- Organized principally for financial gain.
- usage: "Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle"
- synonyms: commercialised
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