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marketing

marketing

783 2.7
Activities companies use to promote and sell products or services
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrkɪtɪŋ/
: 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
mktg
vsmarketing
  • Jargon
1 8.5

A department that promotes and sells products and services

is the full form used in standard writing rather than an informal abbreviation
mkt
vsmarketing
  • Jargon
1 7.1

An activity or department that promotes and sells products

is the full form written in normal words rather than an 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
3 3.2

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

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

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

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
783 2.7
word of mouth
45 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.