Word Study
merchandising
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun merchandising has 1 sense
- merchandising(n = noun.act) marketing, 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
is a kind of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
is a part of marketing
Derived form verb merchandise1
CIDE DICTIONARY
merchandising, n.
The activities associated with selling products, such as identification of the market{7}, advertising at the right time in the right media{7}, and creating attractive packaging and displays; also, the study of the best methods to accomplish such goals. [PJC]
THESAURUS
merchandising
agency, barter, bartering, brokerage, buying and selling, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, dealing, direct-mail selling, doing business, exchange, give-and-take, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, horse trading, huckstering, interchange, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market, market research, marketing, marketing research, peddling, promotion, retail, retailing, sales, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell, swapping, trade, trading, trafficking, wheeling and dealing, wholesale, wholesaling
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