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Past tense of commercialize

regular verb

The past tense of commercialize is commercialized. The past participle is also commercialized.

Forms of commercialize

Base form (V1)commercialize /kəˈmɚʃəˌlaɪz/
Past tense (V2)commercialized
Past participle (V3)commercialized
Present participlecommercializing
Third person singularcommercializes

Commercialized in a sentence

  • a market district formerly served mainly by artisans but increasingly commercialized for mass tourism
  • Mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning were commercialized decades before they were consumerized.From the entry consumerize
  • Recently, a delayed-release capsule containing enteric-coated minitablets of fenofibric acid (Triplex) has been commercialized.2013, Antoine Al-Achi, Integrated Pharmaceutics, →ISBN. From the entry minitablet
  • Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices. From the entry freebooting
  • Instead it recommends how to preen the city for the uncritical gaze of a kind of tourist who willingly accepts low-grade commercialized leisure.2011, Dean MacCannell, The Ethics of Sightseeing, page 200. From the entry preen

Meaning of commercialize

  1. verb To bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
  2. verb 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).
  3. verb To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.

Full definition of commercialize

Questions about the past tense of commercialize

What is the past tense of commercialize?
The past tense of commercialize is commercialized.
What is the past participle of commercialize?
The past participle of commercialize is commercialized.
Is commercialize a regular or irregular verb?
Commercialize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commercialize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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