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commercialist en · NOUN

Etymology

From commercial + -ist.

Meanings

1. Someone who engages in commerce.
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. 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

Deriveds

commercialistic