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And, in principle, these hard-nosed commercialists are on board.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011

The 28 choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the commercialists I mean those who prey upon the ignorance of the unsophisticated, with pictures created by the esthetic habit of, or better to say, through the banality of, "artistic" temperament.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden

No sportsman needs a larger bag than the revised schedule; and commercialists should not be allowed to kill big game anywhere, at any time.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Compromises between feudalists and commercialists were effected, and a sort of constitutionalism became the basis of the reconstructed governments.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.