commercial

Definition

An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

Etymology

From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

Example Sentences

• "She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal."
• "I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot."
• "Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me."