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commercial

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commercial \Com*mer"cial\, a. [Cf. F. commercial.] Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. ``Princely commercial houses.'' --Macaulay. Commercial ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to commerce. n. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"an advertisement broadcast on radio or TV," 1935, from commercial (adj.).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Commercial (Second) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. The constituency is composed of 1,491 electors, 618 corporates and 873 individual members of the Chinese General Chamber ...

Usage examples of commercial.

In the first half of the 18th century, when Bushire was an unimportant fishing village, it was selected by Nadir Shah as the southern port of Persia and dockyard of the navy which he aspired to create in the Persian Gulf, and the British commercial factory of the East India Company, established at Gombrun, the modern Bander Abbasi, was transferred to it in 1759.

But in notes made in early March, at the time Silas Deane was appointed as a secret envoy, Adams had stressed that there must be no political or military connection with France, only a commercial connection.

In 1776, Adams had argued in Congress that any alliance with France must be commercial only.

When in a meeting with Lord Carmarthen, Adams summoned all his old intensity to warn that the attitude of the British, if continued, would inevitably strengthen commercial ties between the United States and France, it had no effect whatever.

Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.

George Riot slipped into town and on the telephone muttered that she must meet him again at the dreary Hex Hotel, she refused, because she was going to a party to be given by the clever Miss Teddy Klutz, aetat 24, the youngest and liveliest teacher at their Qwick-Shure Secretarial and Executive Commercial College, Positions Guaranteed.

Boeing and Airbus are hard at work shaping the future of commercial flight.

Underpinning all of it like the fiscal standard in commercial societies lay a bedrock of depravity and violence where in an egalitarian absolute every man was judged by a single standard and that was his readiness to kill.

The bar and the commercial element of Little Arcady had been cold, not to say suspicious, toward him.

But the Archerfish had been ducking various commercial craft all day as she had traversed first the Skagerak and then the Kattegat, while moving from the North Sea into the Baltic.

The thought of a concerted Bashkir commercial push into the Korrush made him want to scream.

Hashed arrogantly past the commercial craft on its way to the private docking bays, and pulled up with a whine of nullgravs at the entrance ramp of a yacht painted in the blue and silver of the Royal House of Sapne.

The morning she walked into the Biloxi commercial bank she had eaten little for two days.

The commercial biotech firms had been springing up ever since the Human Genome Project started mapping the broad outline of human genes.

For some time he acted as clerk in connexion with a bleachfield at Roslin, and subsequently held a situation in the Commercial Bank in Edinburgh.