The phrase "a commercial function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a role or purpose that relates to business activities or services.
Example: "The marketing department plays a crucial role in fulfilling a commercial function by promoting our products to potential customers."
Alternatives: "a business role" or "a trade purpose".
It's a very young scene in Asian and Hong Kong, so we feel that have a cultural function as well as a commercial function.
The debates and exhibitions are being held in buildings that will have a commercial function after Sept. 26, including the Forum Building, a blue triangular complex, each side stretching 600 feet, that was designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and houses a 3,200-seat 3,200-seat.
The view of squares, buildings with a commercial function and trees prove to be favourable for pedestrian movement, while residential buildings and small monuments act in a negative way.
Still, my choice to go for a commercial function raised a few eyebrows around me.
New Labour gave them explicit permission in 2003 to trade "ordinary functions" for a "commercial purpose".
Each "street" -- really just heated pedestrian-only walkways -- has a different commercial function: food and drink, say, or night life.
After radio and telegraph communications rendered that role obsolete in the early 20th century, the post office instead took on an important commercial function, with bills and payments sent by mail allowing for the growth of regional and national companies.
Today Northallerton's main commercial function is a mixture of light industry, commerce and agricultural services, such as the regular livestock auction market and the production of high-grade manure.
But every system, whatever wonderful movies it may produce, also has a decadent form in which the aesthetic of a movie is a perfect representation of that system's commercial function.
A block away, at Luhring Augustine, you'll find another cheek-by-jowl display of paintings functioning as an installation, on purpose, as a way to stress the gallery's commercial function.
The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California, and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services.
