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[mahr-ki-ting]

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noun

the act of buying or selling in a market.

the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling.

Origin:
1555–65; market + -ing¹

Related forms

in·ter·mar·ket·ing, adjective

pre·mar·ket·ing, adjective

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Which is probably what the drug company's marketing department was counting on.

Yet the same level of detail is not reflected in the marketing.

Big advertising agencies want to sell firms their expertise in marketing.

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Which is probably what the drug company's marketing department was counting on.

Yet the same level of detail is not reflected in the marketing.

Big advertising agencies want to sell firms their expertise in marketing.

If you are sometimes confused when navigating the different marketing terms for organic and natural products you are not alone.

Protecting children from junk-food marketing would help create conditions conducive to achieving a healthy weight.

Marketing research showed that children prefer bolder tastes and colors.

Marketing aside, it's actually a good thing to do once a year.

However, the ongoing collision of marketing and social networks doesn't necessarily have to involve trickery or deception.

The execution of the campaign was questioned by some marketing and advertising experts, although they praised its intent.

Marketing chiefs can now prove that a click on an online ad produces a sale.

The residents of rural communities usually have no experience in running and marketing a business.

Worse, many of them served as marketing vehicles for videos, books or services-sending the test taker straight to a sales pitch.

The man who made history marketing his muscles was an unlikely hero.

Sunset will develop a proposal customized to your marketing objectives.

Comic-Con has long been a marketing platform for movie studios.

Measuring the effectiveness of such marketing is not easy.

Jobs will also be created in sales, marketing and other support services.

It is all about the marketing and a rigidly controlled supply.

For the rest of us, some marketing genius out there invented the koozie.

Admittedly, game-based marketing has had its downs as well as ups.

The benefit to advertisers was clear: highly targeted marketing based on past behavior.

All this suggests that, with a little marketing savvy, the possibilities for celebrating the unfamous are limitless.

Marketing is also vital in persuading people to buy the real thing.

Companies marketing their products and services are going green, whether they're selling cars, computers or televisions.

Also, think about the marketing and all of those nice ice cold drinks you could only buy from soda fountains etc.

Fund managers' promise to rein in errant executives is a good marketing pitch.

If enacted, chemical companies would be required to demonstrate the safety of their products before marketing them.

The multinational brewers also get distribution and marketing expertise in the countries where their acquisitions operate.

Technology doesn't always deliver what the marketing people want.

Antiaging products are big business, but the marketing of these products often misrepresents the science.

Social-norms marketing is the science of persuading people to.

Colleges turn to commercial marketing techniques to enhance their images, attract better students, and raise.

Lease or sponsor one of our films, get marketing information.

And the solicitation isn't the sum total of his marketing.

Perhaps someday soon the marketing of junk food to children will be as big a taboo as doctors marketing cigarettes.

Using viral marketing to break the world's addiction to bottled water.

Yahoo's action may also cause more than a dip in online marketing and sales.

My first post today looked at one of the less offensive recent instances of guerrilla marketing.

In a sign of how book marketing has changed, the restructuring hit the press's publicity operation hardest.

Stir in the intensive marketing of candy and fast food, and you have the makings of an epidemic.

Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths.

In pursuit of revenue and prestige, colleges have ramped up their marketing machines.

It is simply not possible to add a new blade whenever the marketing department wants one.

She now works as a marketing director for a computer company and is an advocate for people with disabilities.

Three-dimensional television got a major marketing push nearly two years ago from the consumer.

Over the next two decades, he tried every marketing gimmick he could think of.

Opportunities exist on a larger scale for you to further your reach through our customized online marketing programs.

Few would object to vegetable gardening and hula-hooping, but efforts around marketing food are more contentious.

Focus your questions on trade shows, marketing decisions, and product sources.

The cypherpunks had identified a flaw in his company's marketing materials, and they were.

Marketing is an applied field and so can be evaluated.

Shouting one's fault from the rooftops makes an interesting marketing ploy, and not one that the travel industry is familiar with.

Companies have an easier time dedicating marketing funds as a sponsor if they know proceeds are going to charity.

The marketing of antimicrobial soaps, hand lotions, sponges and kitchen surfaces has increased in recent years.

The marketing blurb really sums up the amazing difference this will make to our lives:.

The really hard work, the job that is more taxing than writing or producing a book, is promoting and marketing it.

Both the company's marketing and mining operations raked in more cash.

Our marketing experts tell us the average age and income of our visitors.

In contrast, psychotherapists have little or no budget for marketing.

Next-to-no marketing means weak sales, weak sales means next-to-no marketing.

Such marketing is also measurable, which appeals to firms when budgets are tight.

Animals are rarely served whole, and innards are not considered worth marketing and have faded from the inventory of edible foods.

Mirsky lands a bulls eye identifying healthy marketing as the perception vs actual calories consumed.

It would be interesting to see how much of the increased marketing spend is for online marketing.

Globalisation is the more or less simultaneous marketing and sale of identical goods and services around the world.

They'll then write a plan of action for how they'll raise money and whom they will target in their marketing efforts.

Of course, this research could also be used to refine manipulative marketing methods:.

Cuomo's direct-to-consumer marketing code of conduct if the organization resumes offering student loans.

Yet turning a marketing giant into a nippy innovator will be hard.

The scientists and people who make the products and know about them are sidelined while the marketing experts take over.

After a long battle, the drug company agreed to settle charges of illegal marketing and distribution.

In choosing what to sponsor, marketing executives often aim to match the event to the image of their brand.

So country managers need more clout over sourcing and the flow of goods as well as over marketing.

Those marketing techniques are getting more and more sophisticated.

Many companies are attracted by the marketing opportunities offered by community sites.

For many consumer products, this kind of marketing would be considered standard.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.

a store for the sale of food: a meat market.

a meeting of people for selling and buying.

the assemblage of people at such a meeting.

trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity: the market in cotton.

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a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity: the cotton market.

the field of trade or business: the best shoes in the market.

demand for a commodity: an unprecedented market for leather.

a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services: the health-food market.

10.

a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used: the foreign market; the New England market.

11.

current price or value: a rising market for shoes.

12.

stock market.

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verb (used without object)

13.

to buy or sell in a market; deal.

14.

to buy food and provisions for the home.

verb (used with object)

15.

to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week.

16.

to dispose of in a market; sell.

Idioms

17.

at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.

18.

in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying: I'm in the market for a new car.

19.

on the market, for sale; available: Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.

Origin:
1100–1150; Middle English, late Old English < Vulgar Latin *marcātus, Latin mercātus trading, traffic, market

Related forms

mar·ket·er, noun

mul·ti·mar·ket, adjective

non·mar·ket, noun, adjective

pre·mar·ket, verb

re·mar·ket, verb (used with object)

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sub·mar·ket, noun

un·der·mar·ket, verb (used with object)

un·mar·ket·ed, adjective

well-mar·ket·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
16. vend, merchandise, peddle.

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World English Dictionary

marketing (ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ)

—n
	the provision of goods or services to meet customer or consumer needs

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Word Origin & History

market

mid-12c., "a meeting at a fixed time for buying and selling livestock and provisions," from O.N.Fr. market (O.Fr. marchiet, Fr. marché), from L. mercatus "trading, trade, market" (cf. It. mercato, Sp. mercado), from pp. of mercari "to trade, deal in, buy," from merx (gen. mercis) "wares, merchandise,"

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from Italic root *merk-, possibly from Etruscan, referring to various aspects of economics. Meaning "public building or space where markets are held" first attested mid-13c. Sense of "sales, as controlled by supply and demand" is from 1680s. The verb is 1630s, from the noun. Market value (1690s) first attested in writings of John Locke. Market economy is from 1951; market research is from 1926.

marketing

1560s, "buying and selling," prp. adj. from market (v.). Meaning "produce bought at a market" is from 1701.

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