commercialist
adjective
characterized by commercialism; focused on trade and profit.
commercialists
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pluralof commercialist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Samuel P. Orth
Another way is to deliver art from the clutches of its worshippers, and by worshippers I mean the idolaters and the commercialists of art.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
Of course there were votaries of pleasure of all ranks there—rakish young surgeons, fast young clerks and commercialists, occasional dandies of the guard regiments, and the rest.
From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
