commercialization.

The process of turning an idea, product, or activity into something sold for profit.

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Words that belong together

• technology commercialization
• commercialization of research

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Commercialization brought the laboratory's invention to ordinary households.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.