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commercialism|kəˈmɜːʃəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. commercial a.]
1. The principles and practice of commerce; the commercial spirit. (Often disparaging.)
1849Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 109 Young men in London, with their prurience, their effeminacy, their quill-driving commercialism. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxxix, The buy-cheap-and-sell-dear commercialism, in which he had been brought up! 1889G. Gissing Nether World II. xi. 228 Commercialism had divorced art and the handicrafts.
2. A commercial custom, practice, expression.
1881F. J. Crowest Phases Mus. Eng. Contents, Musical Commercialisms. 1883Athenæum 3 Mar. 273 The excruciating commercialism ‘Maria wrote Mrs. Inchbald’ for ‘wrote to Mrs. Inchbald’ defaces almost every page. |