marketing
noun
Simple meaning
The commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈmɑɹkətɪŋ
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
The commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service
“Most companies have a manager in charge of marketing.”
uncountable
The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising.
Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
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This meaning: The commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service
Used this way, marketing is a common word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
“Most companies have a manager in charge of marketing.”
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
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Word Family
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Inflected forms
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The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold.
Word family
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Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
The cost of marketing (e.g., the cost of transferring title and moving goods to the customer).
Research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer.
The organization in the Defense Logistics Agency that inventories and evaluates and sells reusable United States government surplus.
Marketing based on studies of consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses.
Marketing via a promotion delivered directly to the individual prospective customer.
Related words
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A garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing.
Someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns.
Marketing research that yields information about the marketplace.
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Synonyms
Sense: commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product
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