commercialist
commercialist noun: someone who engages in commerce.
Noun
commercialist (plural commercialists)
- Someone who engages in commerce.
- To the more liberal education of commercialists, when compared with that of agriculturists, may justly be ascribed the commercial ascendancy over the agricultural community.1848, A Summary Practical Elucidation of National Economy, page 16
- Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists.1917, Ernest Guy Stevens, Civilized Commercialism, page 149
- Someone who supports commercial activity.
- Both sides--the "commercialists" and the "conservationists"--blitzed with outside endorsements, tours, advertisements, fliers, newspaper articles, and radio and TV publicity.1988 October 7, Harold Henderson, “Saved Form the Sandsuckers”, in Chicago Reader
Forms of commercialist
| plural | commercialists |
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Origin of commercialist
From commercial + -ist.
Words formed from commercialist
Questions about commercialist
- What does commercialist mean?
- Commercialist means someone who engages in commerce.
- What part of speech is commercialist?
- Commercialist is a noun.
- What is the plural of commercialist?
- The plural of commercialist is commercialists.
Words near commercialist in the dictionary
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