OXFORD DICTIONARY
, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of, engaged in, or concerned with, commerce.
2 having profit as a primary aim rather than artistic etc. value; philistine.
3 (of chemicals) supplied in bulk more or less unpurified.
--n.
1 a television or radio advertisement.
2 archaic a commercial traveller.
commercial art art used in advertising, selling, etc. commercial broadcasting television or radio broadcasting in which programmes are financed by advertisements. commercial traveller a firm's travelling salesman or saleswoman who visits shops to get orders. commercial vehicle a vehicle used for carrying goods or fare-paying passengers.
commercialism n. commerciality n. commercially adv.
THESAURUS
banausic, breadwinning, broadcast, business, businesslike, canned show,
commercial announcement,
commercial program, electrical transcription, industrial, materialistic, mercantile, merchant, moneymaking, network show, newscast, plug, practical, prosaic, radio fare, radiobroadcast, realistic, rebroadcast, rerun, retail, serial, soap opera, sound effects, sportscast, spot, spot announcement, sustainer, taped program, trade, trading, utilitarian, wholesale, workaday, workday, working
ROGET THESAURUS
Barter
N
barter, exchange, scorse, truck system, interchange, a Roland for an Oliver, quid pro quo, commutation, composition, Indian gift, trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale, traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping,
commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery, deal, dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain, free trade,
commercial, mercantile, trading, interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale, wholesale, retail, across the counter, cambio non e furto.