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telemarketing

telemarketing

22 3.7
A way of calling people by phone to sell products or services
  • noun
  • /ˌtɛlɪˈmɑrkɪtɪŋ/
translation icon : telemarketing
  • Many businesses use telemarketing to reach out to potential clients by phone.
  • telemarketing fraud
  • deceptive telemarketing

So I stole the the phone list and started at my own Kiwanis Club and would do the telemarketing, go out twice a week and pick up checks.

Examples

  • I work in telemarketing.

  • Before joining The Tech Journal team, he worked in the telemarketing industry.

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  • What would you say if l told you l could set you up with a job in the telemarketing field?

  • I'm only 18 and have been working at a telemarketing job for two years.

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  • What they are doing is the definition of telemarketing: the marketing of goods or services by telephone.

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  • That's why telemarketing is so important to our cause.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Some companies spend more money on telemarketing than any other marketing tactic.

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  • The nice thing about telemarketing is you can live practically anyplace.

  • Sorry, but I don't feel that telemarketing is a viable export.

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  • Defendants also engage in inbound telemarketing when consumers call in response to marketing efforts or advertising.

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Synonyms

teleselling
vstelemarketing
6.0

Selling products or services by phone to customers

is the broader business activity contacting potential customers by telephone
telecommerce
vstelemarketing
  • Archaic
7.9

Selling goods or services to customers by telephone

focuses on direct outreach to potential customers rather than interactive transactions

How Commercial

telemarketing
22 3.7
telecommerce
  • Archaic
7.9
promotion
124 3.2

Surface Forms

telemarketing singular

Morphology

telemarketing = marketing (transparent) = tele + market + ing

The word is formed by adding the prefix tele- to marketing, and the meaning 'marketing by telephone' follows directly from the components.

Etymology

The word telemarketing is made of tele- meaning 'far', like in telephone, and marketing from market meaning 'buying and selling'. So telemarketing literally means 'selling from a distance', and today it usually means selling or promoting things by phone.