Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
commercialize \commercialize\ n. to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects; as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized. [Also spelled commercialise.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, from commercial (adj.) + -ize. Related: Commercialized; commercializing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to apply business methodology to something in order to profit 2 (context transitive English) to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality
WordNet
v. exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality; "The hotel owners are commercializing the beaches"
make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" [syn: commercialise, market]
Usage examples of "commercialize".
In a state bigger than Texas, with most of its lands accessible only by floatplane, the wildernesses of Alaska made the wild places of the lower states seem like nothing more than Disney theme parks: domesticated, crowded, commercialized.
For once, though, the people who use the parks will get to decide whether commercializing a green space really improves it, and for whom.
The original premise, hammered into the Decision and later the Treaty - was, he argued, about to be invalidated if part of the planet was to be commercialized.
The SSC was both sleazy and noble: at one level a "quark barrel" commercialized morass of contractors scrambling at the federal trough, while Congressmen eye-gouged one another in the cloakroom, scientists angled for the main chance and a steady paycheck, and supposedly dignified scholars ground their teeth in public and backbit like a bunch of jealous prima donnas.
Leighton: "I do not contend that it is impossible, madam, but it is very difficult in a thoroughly commercialized society, like yours, to have the feelings of a gentleman.
It is big business, in its way, that Carton is fighting—big business in the commercialized ruin of girls, such, perhaps, as Betty Blackwell—a vicious system that enmeshes even those who are its tools.
But we are convinced of this—and it is as far as we go and is what we are out to accomplish—and that is that we can, and are going to, smash protected, commercialized vice as one of the big businesses of New York.
As users / consumers form a habit of using (or consuming) the software - it is commercialized and begins to carry a price tag.
For one thing, television and radio were becoming by then partly commercialized in other societies, too, as an effect of the same concentration of private power that we find in the U.
It is the banality of being a nameless, faceless marketing target continually being bombarded with tons of degrading, commercialized sex while inwardly longing for a single ounce of genuine love that makes people lonely.
Carson drove out of the rest stop in his newly commercialized pickup truck, which in Georgia made him practically invisible.
And yet even at its worst, the Lake District remains more charming and less rapaciously commercialized than many famed beauty spots in more spacious countries.