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The pursuit of profit
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commercialism
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Word definitions for commercialism in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ At the last Olympics, sports seemed to be less important than the blatant commercialism of the merchandise suppliers. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Could increasing commercialism have anything to do with it? ▪ Indeed, the logic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commercialism \Com*mer"cial*ism\, n. The commercial spirit or method. --C. Kingsley.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: commerce , mercantilism ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business. 2 A tendency to value profit over everything else.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Commercialism is the application of both manufacturing and consumption towards personal usage, or the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of free enterprise geared toward generating profit. Commercialism can also be used in a negative connotation to refer ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"principles and practice of commerce," 1849, from commercial (adj.) + -ism .
Usage examples of commercialism.
All this keeping pace with the times, this immersion in the results of modern discoveries, this speeding-up of existence so that it was all surface and little root--the increasing volatility, cosmopolitanism, and even commercialism of his life, on which he rather prided himself as a man of the world--was, with a secrecy too deep for his perception, cutting at the aloofness logically demanded of one in his position.
The paisanos are clean of commercialism, free of the complicated systems of American business, and, having nothing that can be stolen, exploited, or mortgaged, that system has not attacked them very vigorously.