To develop, organize or use something for commercial sale or profit.
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Words that belong together
- commercialize research
- commercialize a product
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The company commercialized the research only after developing a workable production process.
The proposal sought to commercialize the service without assuming that revenue would cover every cost.
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Word forms
- Base
- commercialize
- Past tense
- commercialized
- Past participle
- commercialized
- Present participle
- commercializing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- commercialize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are commercializing
- Present perfect
- have/has commercialized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been commercializing
- Past
- commercialized
- Past continuous
- was/were commercializing
- Past perfect
- had commercialized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been commercializing
- Future
- will commercialize
- Future continuous
- will be commercializing
- Future perfect
- will have commercialized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been commercializing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: commercialize; commercializes; commercialized; commercialized; commercializing 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: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: commercializes.
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