Non-commercial activity

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A non-commercial (also spelled noncommercial) activity is an activity that is not carried out in the interest of profit.^[1] The opposite is commercial, something that primarly serves profit interests and is focused on business.

For example, advertising-free community radio stations are typically nonprofit organizations staffed by individuals volunteering their efforts to air a wide variety of radio programming, and do not run explicit radio advertisements, included in the United States specific grouping of "non-commercial educational" (NCE) public radio stations.