(BrE also commercialise) verb
[VN] [oftenpassive] to use sth to try to make a profit, especially in a way that other people do not approve of:
Their music has become very commercialized in recent years. * Christmas is far too commercialized now.
commercialization, commercialisation noun [U]
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