adv. [f. COMMERCIAL + -LY2.] In a commercial manner; from a commercial point of view; as a matter of trade.

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1795.  Burke, Scarcity, Wks. VII. 414. I consider the stopping of the distillery, œconomically, financially, commercially, medicinally, and in some degree morally too, as a measure rather well meant than well considered.

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a. 1845.  Hood, Desert-Born, viii. To speak still more commercially.

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1883.  J. Thornton, in Standard, 27 April, 6/1. The nitric [acid] was commercially pure. There is another chemically pure, and that is the best.

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