Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun commercialization

1 sense of commercialization

Sense 1
commercialization, commercialisation -- (the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce; "my father considered the commercialization of Christmas to be a sacrilege"; "the government tried to accelerate the commercialization of this development"; "both companies will retain control over the commercialization of their own products")
       => exploitation, development -- (the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits")