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precommercial en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + commercial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Prior to commerce.
    • Precommercial societies at first lacked any concept of ownership at all, and when a concept of ownership did develop it was predominantly communal. 2008, Gregory S. Alexander, Commodity & Propriety, page 65: