commercialize
verb
com·mer·cial·ize
kə-ˈmər-shə-ˌlīz 
commercialized; commercializing
1
a
: to manage on a business basis for profit
b
: to develop commerce in
2
: to exploit for profit
commercialize Christmas
3
: to debase in quality for more profit
Examples of commercialize in a Sentence
The company hopes to commercialize the drug next year.
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The work was in part funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health or ARPA-H, which Jang said planned to commercialize the technology.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
The pact also gives Hengrui the rights to commercialize four immunology drugs from Bristol in that region.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 12 May 2026
In 2019, Microsoft agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI’s for-profit arm and provide cloud computing services in exchange for rights to a share of profits and an exclusive license to commercialize one of OpenAI’s models for a year.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 11 May 2026
Its goal was to commercialize early-stage technologies too risky for conventional finance.
—David H. Hsu, Fortune, 11 May 2026
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
The pact also gives Hengrui the rights to commercialize four immunology drugs from Bristol in that region.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 12 May 2026
In 2019, Microsoft agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI’s for-profit arm and provide cloud computing services in exchange for rights to a share of profits and an exclusive license to commercialize one of OpenAI’s models for a year.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 11 May 2026
Its goal was to commercialize early-stage technologies too risky for conventional finance.
—David H. Hsu, Fortune, 11 May 2026
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commercialize
verb
com·mer·cial·ize
kə-ˈmər-shə-ˌlīz
commercialized; commercializing
1
: to manage for the sake of making a profit
2
: to use for profit
commercialize Christmas
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