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Commercialism vs Scholarship - What's the difference?

commercialism | scholarship |

As nouns the difference between commercialism and scholarship

is that commercialism is the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business while scholarship is a grant-in-aid to a student.

commercialism

English

Noun

(wikipedia commercialism) (-)
  • The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.
  • A tendency to value profit over everything else.

    • scholarship

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia scholarship) (en noun)
  • A grant-in-aid to a student.
  • The character or qualities of a scholar.
  • The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
  • (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
  • (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

    • Related terms

    * school * scholar, scholarly * scholarism (archaic) * scholastic, scholasticism * scholasticate

    Synonyms

    * (money to assist a student to study) allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary * (character of a scholar) * (activity of a scholar) * (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars)