OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11609

commercialize

/kəˈmɚʃəlaɪz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comercializar
To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).
finding the right balance in paying for water infrastructure (treatment plants and pipe networks) but not commercializing water to the point of excluding low-income people from ade…