How do you use the word "commercial" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "commercial": There are many commercial firms in New York. The TV commercial is drawing well.

Commercial Meaning

/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

nounA commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.

Sentence Examples

There are many commercial firms in New York.

The TV commercial is drawing well.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

technical mercenary

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The new airport will serve both passenger travel and ____ cargo flights.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The short television ____ effectively advertised the new cleaning product.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Late Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Late Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Late Latin -ium Late Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:

"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." — 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

"Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder." — 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story, page 133:

"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." — 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs, page 39:

"A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view." — 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

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