{
  "id": "commercial.economic",
  "term": "commercial",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "",
  "domain": "economics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about trade and business where products are bought or sold",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "trade.economic",
      "business.economic",
      "buy.economic",
      "sell.economic",
      "products.goods"
    ],
    "interaction": "trade and business together enable buying and selling of products",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exchange through money",
      "ownership transfer",
      "market transaction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Walmart moved 578 million units through its U.S. stores in 2023, tracking sales via real-time inventory systems.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1851 Great Exhibition in London displayed 100,000 commercial goods from 15,000 exhibitors across 40 nations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon.com processed 3.5 billion orders globally in 2022, routing shipments through fulfillment centers in 22 countries.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "business.economic",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "commercial",
    "commercials"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components to align with definition; definition slightly corrected for grammar and clarity"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-commercial.economic"
}