commercialize
verb (used with object)
to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
decommercialize
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a word derived from
commercialize.
Example Sentences
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The labels' immediate goal isn't so much to stop all online piracy--something even they would concede is impossible--as to decommercialize it by convincing venture capitalists that it's not in their self-interest to fund it.
From Time Magazine Archive
