commercial
An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
Example
“She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.”
Other meanings
A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
A commercial traveller.
Related words
- fictomercial
- documercial
- infomercial
- intromercial
- commercial break
- e-commercial
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "commercium".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “commercial” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.