commercialise

[US]/kəˈmɜ:ʃəlˌaɪz/
[UK]/kəˈmə..ʃəlˌaɪz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to turn into a commercial venture; to make into a business; to turn into a means of profit.

Real-world Examples

However, for the technology to take off he believes it needs to be commercialised in an evolutionary way.

Source: The Economist - Technology

By the seventeenth Century spirits, or cordials as they were known, were increasingly commercialised.

Source: BBC Ideas

Another is rules around consent and data use, especially if 3MAG will involve firms understandably keen to commercialise the findings.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Because we're still at an early stage of commercialising this type of fuel.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

Its inventors set up a company called NeuroRestore, which is working with Onward Medical, a Dutch company, to commercialise their new device.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

They are thus hard to commercialise, which is a pity, because the self-cleaning, self-drying surfaces they create could be of great value.

Source: Dominance Episode 1

Material Economics has identified 70 projects in Europe that are commercialising technology to reduce carbon emissions in basic-materials industries.

Source: Economist Business

But most importantly, having done that, commercialise that to say, how would I build a commercially viable power plant?

Source: Financial Times Podcast

More recently, Virgin Galactic, a company hoping to commercialise space flight, developed out of the Ansari XPRIZE 2004 winner Tier One.

Source: BBC Learning English (official version)

These days Qixi is much more commercialised, and it's usually celebrated in the same manner as Valentine's Day – with meals, chocolates, and flowers.

Source: Selected English short passages

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