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commercial

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From commerce +‎ -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.

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commercial (plural commercials)

  1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
    She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
  2. (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
  3. (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
    • 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:
      I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me.
  4. (slang) A male prostitute.
    • 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story, page 133:
      Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.
    • 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs, page 39:
      With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money.

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Adjective

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commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)

  1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
  2. (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
  3. (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin commerciālis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce +‎ -ial.

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commercial (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)

  1. commercial

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commercial m (plural commerciaux)

  1. a salesman, sales representative

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commercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

  1. Obsolete spelling of comercial.

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commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

  1. Obsolete spelling of comercial.
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