commercials
- 1Plural of commercial.
The network packed the final break with car and insurance commercials.
Streaming services lured viewers away by promising fewer commercials.
Note
Only the noun takes this plural. The adjective commercial never inflects, so a phrase like commercial airports keeps it unchanged. Most often the word means broadcast advertisements, the radio and television spots that fill an ad break. Among traders it has a narrower use: commercials are commercial traders, set against individual speculators. An obsolete meaning (traveling salesmen) and a slang one (male prostitutes) pluralize the same way, so context decides.
commercials is a form of commercial
commercial, noun: An advertisement broadcast on radio or television or another common media format. Full entry
- Forms
- commercialcommercials plural
- Spelling
- commercial → commercials: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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