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marketing

marketing

838 2.7
Activities companies use to promote and sell products or services
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrkɪtɪŋ/
translation icon : marketing
  • Effective marketing strategies can significantly boost a company's sales and visibility.
  • marketing strategy
  • marketing campaign
  • marketing mix

So that's my, that's my short marketing pitch for you all.

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Examples

  • And then I went to work in marketing and I hated it.

  • What is going on with their marketing department, man?

  • You are probably the best marketing mind I know.

  • So that leaves poor software, poor marketing, and poor camera.

  • So I would use every marketing means possible.

  • Look what the marketing guys gave me.

  • Seems like a marketing mistake.

  • I'm trying to build the best marketing machine in the world.

  • What is the purpose of marketing in a nutshell?

  • Just look at this from a high-level marketing perspective, okay?

Synonyms

marketing field
vsmarketing
1 3.1

Part of business that helps companies tell people about and sell products or services

is the set of specific activities focused on promotion, selling, and distribution
mkt
vsmarketing
  • Jargon
7.1

An activity or department that promotes and sells products

is the full form written in normal words rather than an abbreviation
mktg
vsmarketing
  • Jargon
8.5

A department that promotes and sells products and services

is the full form used in standard writing rather than an informal abbreviation

Compounds

A way of sending advertising messages directly to individual customers, for example by email

The money a company spends on advertising, distribution, and selling products

marketing research
  • Specialized
2 3.2

Gathering and studying information about customers and other companies to help business decisions

Part of business that helps companies tell people about and sell products or services

Data from studies about customers and markets that guide how a business sells or advertises products

retail marketing
  • Specialized
1 3.4

To tell people about goods and sell them directly to customers in shops or online

Planned online activities to promote products or services

A short, intense campaign to quickly reach many people with ads

How Extensive

marketing
838 2.7
word of mouth
26 2.6

Surface Forms

marketing singular
marketings plural

Morphology

marketing = market (transparent) = market + ing

Productive nominalization from the verb 'market' with '-ing' denotes the activity or practice of promoting and selling, which is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

The word marketing comes from market, which used to mean a place to 'buy and sell' goods and is related to merchant ('a trader'). So, marketing is the work of promoting, selling and moving products to customers.