commercialization

[ kuh-mur-shuhl-uh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the condition of being focused on the profitable aspects of something, especially to excess:

   Many families have grown tired of the commercialization of Christmas.

   Increased commercialization—and the tendency to view audiences as consumers rather than citizens—has contributed to the decline in public-service broadcasting.

2. the act or process of making something available for sale or viable as a profitable commodity:

   The fuel cell is currently expensive to produce, but commercialization will reduce the costs.

   Successful commercialization of this oilseed will depend on a combination of farmer and market readiness that may be difficult to achieve.

Word History and Origins

Origin of commercialization¹

First recorded in 1885–90; commercial ( def ) + -ization ( def )

Example Sentences

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates.

From TechCrunch

Battery sizes, air traffic control and other infrastructure issues are among the many potential challenges to commercializing them, according to experts.

From Fortune

Since becoming a part of SoftBank in 2017, however, Boston Dynamics has aggressively pushed to commercialize its products after a quarter century of being focused on military and research robotics.

From TechCrunch

NASA has made no secret of its desire to commercialize as much of the space industry as possible, no doubt buoyed by the rapid progress SpaceX has made since the turn of the century and the cost savings it has achieved in that time.

From Singularity Hub 

The deal also provides a clearer view of Luminar’s strategy of focusing on what its founder Austin Russell believes are the most likely and shortest paths to commercialized automated vehicles, and in turn, a profitable company.

From TechCrunch

However, an unintended consequence of the commercialization of the sport was a boom in child trafficking.

From The Daily Beast

Only Johnny Carson could make the commercialization of Shakespeare funny.

From The Daily Beast

Her book chronicling the gruesome commercialization of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death (1963), was a bestseller.

From The Daily Beast

It was another little thing they had picked up in our world, from our civilization,—the commercialization of art.

From Project Gutenberg

But in the tropics, where the dance and jollity are no private matters, there is something sterile in commercialization.

From Project Gutenberg

Her people are an excitable, flaming people who may burst out in a spasmodic revulsion against their commercialization.

From Project Gutenberg

The commercialization of certain exceptional talents has also produced exceptional incomes, direct and derivative.

From Project Gutenberg

The commercialization of brides is substantially universal, except in America.

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