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overcommercialise

overcommercialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overcommercialize.

Meaning of overcommercialize

Verb

overcommercialize (third-person singular simple present overcommercializes, present participle overcommercializing, simple past and past participle overcommercialized)

  1. (transitive) To make excessively commercial.
    • It was unwieldy, included a fatal bombing at Centennial Olympic Park and is largely considered the most overcommercialized Olympics in the history of the modern Games.2007 July 15, “Chicago Gets Advice on How to Secure and Run a Successful Olympics”, in New York Times

Forms of overcommercialise

third-person singular presentovercommercialises
present participleovercommercialising
past participleovercommercialised
pastovercommercialised

Origin of overcommercialise

From over- + commercialise.

Questions about overcommercialise

What is overcommercialise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Overcommercialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overcommercialize.

Words near overcommercialise in the dictionary

  1. overcomment
  2. overcommented
  3. overcommenting
  4. overcomments
  5. overcommercialisation
  6. overcommercialise
  7. overcommercialised
  8. overcommercialises
  9. overcommercialising
  10. overcommercialization
  11. overcommercialize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcommercialise (page history and authors); overcommercialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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