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marketing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun marketing has 3 senses
- marketing(n = noun.act) merchandising, selling - the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money; Array has particulars: bait and switch, private treaty, bootlegging, bootlegging, capitalisation, capitalization, retail, wholesale, sale, syndication, dumping, dutch auction, retailing, telecommerce, telemarketing, teleselling, hawking, peddling, vending, vendition, resale, sale
- marketing(n = noun.act) Array - the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service; "most companies have a manager in charge of marketing" is a kind of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
- marketing(n = noun.act) Array - shopping at a market; "does the weekly marketing at the supermarket" is a kind of shopping
is a kind of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
is a part of marketing
Derived form verb market3
has particulars: direct marketing, channel, distribution channel
has parts: distribution, marketing, merchandising, selling, packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicity
Derived form verb market4
Derived form verb market3
CIDE DICTIONARY
marketing, n.
- The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. [1913 Webster]
- Articles in, or from, a market; supplies. [1913 Webster]
- The activities required by a producer to sell his products, including advertising, storing, taking orders, and distribution to vendors or individuals. [PJC]
THESAURUS
marketing
balance of trade, big business, business, business dealings, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, coemption, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, consumer power, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer sovereignty, consumer survey, consumerism, cornering, dealing, dealings, direct-mail selling, emption, fair trade, free trade, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, hire purchase, huckstering, impulse buying, industry, installment buying, intercourse, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order buying, mail-order selling, market, market research, marketing research, mercantile business, merchandising, merchantry, money illusion, multilateral trade, peddling, promotion, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, rebuying, reciprocal trade, repurchase, restraint of trade, retail, retailing, sales, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, shopping, shopping spree, small business, soft sell, the business world, the marketplace, trade, traffic, truck, unilateral trade, wholesale, wholesaling, window-shopping
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