Usually means: Making products suitable for sale.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word commercialize:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. commercialize: Merriam-Webster
  2. commercialize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commercialize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commercialize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commercialize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commercialize, commercialize: Wordnik
  7. commercialize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commercialize: Wiktionary
  9. commercialize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commercialize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commercialize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. commercialize: Dictionary.com
  13. commercialize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Commercialize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. commercialize: Rhymezone
  16. commercialize: FreeDictionary.org
  17. commercialize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. commercialize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. commercialize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. commercialize: Legal dictionary
  2. commercialize: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commercialize: Encyclopedia

(Note: See commercialization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) to bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
verb:  (transitive) to apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).
verb:  (transitive) to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.

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