uncommercial
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + commercial.
Adjective
[edit]uncommercial (not comparable)
- Not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable.
- 2007 January 1, Stephen Holden, “Hush, Little Baby, Mama’s Crooning”, in The New York Times[1]:
- But Columbia Records executives deemed the idea uncommercial […] and instead proposed an album of lullabies.
Noun
[edit]uncommercial (plural uncommercials)
- A spoof advertisement created for countercultural purposes.
- 2001, Margaret Gallagher, Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy:
- This uncommercial was turned down by CBC on the grounds that it violated standards of taste […]