commercial entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommercialandentity
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commercial
adjective
uk/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofcommercialandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcommercial entity
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Acommercialentitymay be well aware of the business purpose behind a use of personal data but characterize it as intended to benefit patient care.
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I welcome the fact that it will not be disposed of piecemeal but made acommercialentity.
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Because of its set-up, it could be argued that every pit should operate as a separatecommercialentity.
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In normal commercial considerations, nocommercialentitycan or does afford, for a long period, to trade at a loss.
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As acommercialentity, it will not be its duty to pursue forms of activity other than those designed to produce a commercial return.
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To get the bestcommercialentityor commercial unit, political expediency is unlikely to provide the best answer.
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Once the royal ordnance factories are established as a singlecommercialentity, however, there must be freedom to take account of commercial considerations.
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The treaty governs the way in which monopolies, like any othercommercialentity, may act, but it does not prohibit them.
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For every other purpose husband and wife are, so far as theircommercialentityis concerned, entirely separate.
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Could anycommercialentityhave a greater concern about the sustainability of fish stocks than those family businesses?
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There is much to be done to weld the existing organisation into a coherent, independent,commercialentity.
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I accept that the costs indicate that, as acommercialentity, nuclear energy in this country fares badly at present.
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Thirdly, it should be allowed to become a viablecommercialentity, to compete in the global marketplace and to raise its own funds for reinvestment in new facilities.
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We are given to understand that they have now lost theircommercialentity, although, as has been explained in another place, only for the duration of the war.
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The joint venture involves the creation of a separate legalcommercialentity(jointly owned), which provides profit to its shareholders.
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Development from a laboratory demonstration to acommercialentityspanned several decades and required the efforts of many practitioners.
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In 1905, the club's statute changed from acommercialentityto a social club.
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Acommercialentity, the contractor company, is being engaged to extract petroleum according to some contract.
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Trade-offs occur among consumers, whose personal health data may come into commercial use, and commercial entities using them to make money.
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Special purpose vehicles will be commercial entities aimed at securing third party investment in major infrastructure works on the railway.
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