Crossword clues for commercialism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commercialism \Com*mer"cial*ism\, n.
The commercial spirit or method.
--C. Kingsley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"principles and practice of commerce," 1849, from commercial (adj.) + -ism.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business. 2 A tendency to value profit over everything else.
WordNet
n. transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: commerce, mercantilism]
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 to the possibility within open-market capitalism to exploit objects, people, or the environment for private gain for the purpose of generating profit.
As such, the related term "commercialized" can be used in a negative fashion, implying that someone or something has been despoiled by commercial or monetary interests.
Commercialism can also refer, positively or negatively, to corporate domination. Commercialism is often closely associated with the corporate world and advertising, and often makes use of advancements in technology.
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.