commercialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce +‎ -ial.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/
• (General American) IPA: /kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/

名詞

commercial (plural commercials)

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

   She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.

2. (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
3. (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
   • 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:

     I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me.

4. (slang) A male prostitute.
   • 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story, page 133:

     Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.

   • 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs, page 39:

     With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money.

上位語

• advertisement

下位語

• infomercial

派生語

形容詞

commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)

1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
   • 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

     A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

2. (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3. (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.

派生語

関連する語

• commerce
• commercialize
• precommercial

Further reading

• “commercial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “commercial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.