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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commercially
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically/commercially justifiable
economically/commercially/financially viable
▪ New projects must be economically viable.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ Certainly there are commercially available recognition units which can be plugged into home computers but they are very unsophisticated.
▪ They warned that commercially available encryption software would be easily overcome by intelligence services.
▪ Diets sterilized by irradiation are commercially available.
▪ Throughout the century, the quantity of apparatus commercially available greatly increased.
▪ Enzyme immunoassays are commercially available for detecting antibody to hepatitis C virus.
▪ Is there a commercially available package that produces the required format?
▪ The structural database has been interfaced with commercially available software and used to generate cleavage-transection maps.
confidential
▪ Much Government information continues to be filed inaccessibly away at central and local level, often classified as commercially confidential.
produced
▪ The size of commercially produced models for nurse education may be life size or greater.
▪ There is a tendency to start on the second stage of commercially produced baby foods at this point.
▪ There are commercially produced stands or easels to hold the papers, but a home-made version is cheap and easily stored.
▪ Combustion can not continue in the absence of oxygen and certain commercially produced fire extinguishers work on this principle.
▪ This involves using cassette players to re-record commercially produced recordings on to tape.
sensitive
▪ The purchaser's plans may be commercially sensitive, dictating the need to first approach targets anonymously.
▪ The hon. Member for Sedgefield questioned the commercially sensitive nature of the provision.
▪ The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive.
▪ A trade magazine journalist was ordered in the High Court to disclose the source of commercially sensitive information.
▪ How would commercially sensitive information of one company be protected?
successful
▪ This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement, with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles.
▪ True, the commercially successful electric car is still a figment.
▪ This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine.
▪ But what if hybrids prove too commercially successful?
▪ Newcomen must have done various experiments before he erected this first commercially successful engine, but we have no record of these.
▪ Stoke's site is probably the most commercially successful.
▪ He came from a prosperous or at least commercially successful Lincolnshire family which emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633 and 1634.
▪ The company's films were increasingly expensive, but less and less commercially successful.
viable
▪ Two other developments have helped to make mains signalling commercially viable.
▪ These approaches produced successes, and the subfield of expert systems became commercially viable.
▪ A number of grants and incentives are available for projects which are socially desirable, but not commercially viable without support.
▪ They've devised a series of guidelines that will enable the beauty spot to stay both commercially viable and beautiful.
▪ Still, I suppose the play's commercially viable.
▪ Given the limited scale of release in Britain, the results were encouraging rather than commercially viable.
▪ The point is to be commercially viable.
▪ Indeed, at least one unspecified outfit is thought to have decided that the Architecture-Neutral Format is commercially viable now.
■ VERB
develop
▪ The idea of using chemiluminescence has now been developed commercially by Amersham International.
exploit
▪ The duration of the semiconductor design right depends on if and when the topography is commercially exploited.
▪ Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.
▪ Boulton realised that if Watt's engines were to be exploited commercially the patent would have to be extended.
produce
▪ Widely available since the 1930s, instant coffee is produced commercially by brewing ground freshly roasted coffee to a strong concentrate.
▪ These reagents, as well as reference procedures for specialized diagnostic and molecular epidemiologic approaches, are usually not produced commercially.
▪ They do not occur naturally, but were produced commercially for 50 years, beginning in 1929.
▪ It just picked a couple of commercially produced boots and asked the manufacturers to make a few changes.
▪ An increasing number of these are being produced commercially.
▪ The first microprocessor as such was produced commercially by Intel in the United States in 1971.
use
▪ The process is used commercially to obtain drinkable water from sea water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Much of the land around here is commercially farmed.
▪ Nintendo has been commercially successful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Certainly there are commercially available recognition units which can be plugged into home computers but they are very unsophisticated.
▪ Had only one been wrong, it might indeed have suffered commercially.
▪ Proteolytic enzymes can also be applied to, or injected into, cuts commercially.
▪ Several preparations are available commercially, two of which are presented in Table 3-9, as examples.
▪ The duration of the semiconductor design right depends on if and when the topography is commercially exploited.
▪ This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement, with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commercially

Commercially \Com*mer"cial*ly\, adv. In a commercial manner.

Wiktionary
commercially

adv. In a commercial manner: a manner pertaining to commerce.

WordNet
commercially

adv. in a commercial manner; "the product is commercially available"

Usage examples of "commercially".

Nut butters, made from ground almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, or other nuts, and found in health food stores, do not carry the added sugars or preservatives of commercially sold and processed butters, such as peanut butter.

The total mass of a 50 km length of commercially available high-temperature superconducting wire capable of carrying 100 amps amounts to less than 275 kg.

Commercially, tofu is pressed into blocks with various amounts of water.

State may be applied to the income of a foreign pipeline corporation which is commercially domiciled there and which pipes natural gas into that State for delivery to, and sale by, a local distributing corporation to local consumers.

Thus it will be seen that the missions were organized both agriculturally and commercially so as to be almost self-supporting, and that of the mere necessaries of life they had sufficient for exportation, no small achievement when we consider how averse from labour were the Indians with whom they had to deal.

Inside, a crude plywood skateboarding ramp was the only remains of an attempt to use the building commercially in the last decade.

The only difference was that present-day Yupik hunted from skiffs with outboard engines instead of kayaks, and four-wheelers and snow machines instead of dog sleds, and much of the time they did it commercially, for sale and not for subsistence.

Most deckers used commercially developed software and, consequently, could only break into the most simple of bases.

Some, like comfrey, are commercially available, but I prefer to buy the dried herbs in their pure form and make my own recipes.

There are still plenty of cellars left, but those that are used commercially are boutiques and restaurants and places like that.

Second, it was considered unwise to travel commercially with large amounts of U.

I found an interesting mutation of Chrysothamnus, with possible commercially valuable properties, at Sunset and Queens Road.

It was a biochip image coprocessor, one of the finest commercially available anywhere in the entire world.

He made his living as a supplier, and banker, and even spiritual comforter for the kind of maniacs who in earlier times confined themselves to building perpetual-motion machines and squaring the circle, but who nowadays discover various forms of health-giving energy, think up theories of cosmogenesis, and devise ways of commercially utilizing telepathic phenomena.

This information is then disseminated to the troops through the commercial Global Broadcast System (GBS) onto "set-top" boxes, an enabling technology that was developed commercially.