commercial

commercial
    adj 1: connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in
           commerce or commercial enterprises; "commercial trucker";
           "commercial TV"; "commercial diamonds" [ant:
           {noncommercial}]
    2: of or relating to commercialism; "a commercial attache";
       "commercial paper"; "commercial law"
    3: of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior;
       "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid" [syn:
       {commercial}, {commercial-grade}]
    n 1: a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television [syn:
         {commercial}, {commercial message}]
    

Commercial \Com*mer"cial\, a. [Cf. F. commercial.]
   Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with
   commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages;
   commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses."
   --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Commercial college}, a school for giving instruction in
      commercial knowledge and business.

   {Commercial law}. See under {Law}.

   {Commercial note paper}, a small size of writing paper,
      usually about 5 by 71/2 or 8 inches.

   {Commercial paper}, negotiable paper given in due course of
      business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes,
      bank checks, etc.

   {Commercial traveler}, an agent of a wholesale house who
      travels from town to town to solicit orders.

   Syn: See {Mercantile}.
        [1913 Webster]
    

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "commercial":
      banausic, breadwinning, broadcast, business, businesslike,
      canned show, commercial announcement, commercial program,
      electrical transcription, industrial, materialistic, mercantile,
      merchant, moneymaking, network show, newscast, plug, practical,
      prosaic, radio fare, radiobroadcast, realistic, rebroadcast, rerun,
      retail, serial, soap opera, sound effects, sportscast, spot,
      spot announcement, sustainer, taped program, trade, trading,
      utilitarian, wholesale, workaday, workday, working