v. [f. COMMERCIAL + -IZE; cf. F. commercialiser.] trans. To render commercial, make a matter of trade; to subject to commercialism. Hence Commercialized ppl. a., Commercializing.
1830. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 14/1. There has been a great extension of the power of commerce, not only in itself … but in the commercializing of agriculture.
1850. Fraser’s Mag., XLI. 581. Expense and rank went more together of old than in our more commercialized country.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., III. VI. ci. 420. Agriculture … has been, in America, commercialized, and become really a branch of trade.
Hence Commercialization.
1889. Pall Mall G., 17 June, 3/2. The commercialization of the Indian railway system, giving business rather than military management.
