From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Commercial \Com*mer"cial\, adjective [Cf. F. commercial.] Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. ''Princely commercial houses.'' --Macaulay.
{Commercial college}, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business.
{Commercial law}. See under {Law}.
{Commercial note paper}, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 71/2 or 8 inches.
{Commercial paper}, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank checks, etc.
{Commercial traveler}, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.
Syn: See {Mercantile}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises; "commercial trucker"; "commercial TV"; "commercial diamonds" [ant: {noncommercial}]
2: of or relating to commercialism; "a commercial attache"; "commercial paper"; "commercial law"
3: of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
noun
1: a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television [syn: {commercial message}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "commercial": banausic, breadwinning, broadcast, business, businesslike, canned show, commercial announcement, commercial program, electrical transcription, industrial, materialistic, mercantile, merchant, moneymaking, network show, newscast, plug, practical, prosaic, radio fare, radiobroadcast, realistic, rebroadcast, rerun, retail, serial, soap opera, sound effects, sportscast, spot, spot announcement, sustainer, taped program, trade, trading, utilitarian, wholesale, workaday, workday, working
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