uncommercial
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + commercial.
Adjective
edituncommercial (not comparable)
- Not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable
- 2007 January 1, Stephen Holden, “Hush, Little Baby, Mama’s Crooning”, in New York Times[1]:
- But Columbia Records executives deemed the idea uncommercial […] and instead proposed an album of lullabies.
Noun
edituncommercial (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 […]