Commercialize vs Sell - What's the difference?
commercialize | sell |
to apply business methodology to something in order to profit
to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality
(intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
* Bible, (w) xix. 21
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, title= (ergative) To be sold.
To promote a particular viewpoint.
(slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
* (Charles Dickens)
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, title= (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
An act of selling.
An easy task.
* 1922': What a '''sell for Lena! - (Katherine Mansfield), ''The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
(colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
* 1919 ,
(obsolete) A seat or stool.
(archaic) A saddle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
As verbs the difference between commercialize and sell
is that commercialize is to apply business methodology to something in order to profit while sell is to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.As a noun sell is
an act of selling.commercialize
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Alternative forms
* commercialise (UK)Verb
(commercializ)See also
* monetizesell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sellen, from (etyl) , Icelandic selja.Verb
- If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool, passage=Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.}}
Antonyms
* buyDerived terms
* sell-by date * sell-out * sell-outs * sell-through * sell down * sell down the river * sell ice to Eskimos * sell like hotcakes * sell one's soul * sell out * sell refrigerators to Eskimos * sell wolf ticketsQuotations
* To trick, or cheat someone. *Noun
(en noun)- This is going to be a tough sell .
- "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) selle, from (etyl) sella.Alternative forms
* selle (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Fairfax)
- turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell , / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].
