Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a commercial manner; as regards commerce; from the business man's point of view: as, an article commercially valueless; copyright commercially considered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a commercial manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a commercial manner: a manner pertaining to commerce.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a commercial manner

Etymologies

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commercial +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I would point to predictable critical reactions to such transgressions of propriety, how they are invariably deemed “gratuitous”, “indecent”, “offensive”, “vulgar”, how aspersions are cast on the motivation of creators with arguments that they are simply being “controversial” in order to gain commercially from the resultant publicity.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I would point to predictable critical reactions to such transgressions of propriety, how they are invariably deemed “gratuitous”, “indecent”, “offensive”, “vulgar”, how aspersions are cast on the motivation of creators with arguments that they are simply being “controversial” in order to gain commercially from the resultant publicity.

    There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009

  • Lawyers say that has raised the stakes in trademark disputes, which almost always hinge on which band first used the name commercially, and where.

    From ABBA to ZZ Top, All the Good Band Names Are Taken John Jurgensen 2010

  • Lawyers say that has raised the stakes in trademark disputes, which almost always hinge on which band first used the name commercially, and where.

    From ABBA to ZZ Top, All the Good Band Names Are Taken John Jurgensen 2010

  • Lawyers say that has raised the stakes in trademark disputes, which almost always hinge on which band first used the name commercially, and where.

    From ABBA to ZZ Top, All the Good Band Names Are Taken John Jurgensen 2010

  • An argument could be raised (and I'm not saying that it would necessarily be correct) that the photographer, by saying "you can use this image commercially", is not being sufficiently clear that the permission only applies to copyright.

    The Virgin case: why CC is (and should always be) just a copyright licence 2007

  • An argument could be raised (and I'm not saying that it would necessarily be correct) that the photographer, by saying "you can use this image commercially", is not being sufficiently clear that the permission only applies to copyright.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • The progress in commercially viable rare-breed meats has been mostly in pork and beef; people are willing to pay extra for them, and the animals can be the main component of a farm rather than the adjunct that chickens usually are.

    Spring Chickens 2006

  • The progress in commercially viable rare-breed meats has been mostly in pork and beef; people are willing to pay extra for them, and the animals can be the main component of a farm rather than the adjunct that chickens usually are.

    Spring Chickens 2006

  • The progress in commercially viable rare-breed meats has been mostly in pork and beef; people are willing to pay extra for them, and the animals can be the main component of a farm rather than the adjunct that chickens usually are.

    Spring Chickens 2006

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