Marketing

Verb

1. Present participle of market

Full definition of marketing

Noun

1. Buying and selling in a market.
2. (uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; includes market research and advertising.
• 2013-05-25, No hiding place, In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
3. (up to the 1920s, archaic) Shopping, going to market.
• 1926, George Herriman, comic strip Us Husbands, June 12th, 1926 (reprinted in the back of Krazy & Ignatz, vol. 1922–1924, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60699-477-1, p. 223):to husband: I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone.

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