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Commercialized   /kəmˈərʃəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
Commercialized

adjective
1.
Organized principally for financial gain.  Synonym: commercialised.


Commercialize

verb
1.
Exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality.
2.
Make commercial.  Synonyms: commercialise, market.





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"Commercialized" Quotes from Famous Books



... institution of higher learning for only one reason: to get an education. And now! Stadia and bowls instead of laboratories and classrooms. Physical perfection has become a fetish and that is being highly commercialized. ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... recognition, nor that ignorant, half-sincere respect which is commonly accorded to artists who have achieved success. Neither of these serves much purpose. What I mean is rather understanding, and a spontaneous feeling that things of beauty are important. In a thoroughly commercialized society, an artist is respected if he makes money, and because he makes money, but there is no genuine respect for the works of art by which his money has been made. A millionaire whose fortune has been made in button-hooks ...
— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell
... neck and of arms. The face, a moment before pale and worn almost to haggardness, was now flushed with the indignation which gave point and edge to the words which overwhelmed for a moment even the shameless and commercialized criminal. ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming


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