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
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 Marsden Hartley
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 William Temple Hornaday
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 by William Makepeace Thackeray
