marketing

UK: /ˈmɑː^rkɪtɪŋ/ US: /ˈmɑrkɪtɪŋ/ ,(mär′ki ting)

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mar•ket•ing /ˈmɑrkɪtɪŋ/   n. [uncountable]

1. the act or practice of advertising and selling a product:
   She majored in marketing.
2. shopping for food:
   Her husband did the marketing on Fridays.

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mar•ket•ing  (mär′ki ting), n. 

1. Business the act of buying or selling in a market.
2. Business 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.

• market + -ing¹ 1555–65

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marketing / ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/ noun

1. the provision of goods or services to meet customer or consumer needs

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mar•ket /ˈmɑrkɪt/   n. 

[countable]
1. a place where buyers and sellers meet for the sale of goods:
   We went to the market for vegetables.
2. a store for selling food:
   Go to the market for milk.
3. a meeting of people for buying and selling:
   a market day.
4. Business trade in a particular product:
   the cotton market.
5. Business demand for an item or a product:
   The health-food market is expanding.
6. Business a region in which goods and services are bought or used:
   the foreign market.
7. Business [usually: the + ~] stock market.

v. 

8. to buy provisions for the home:
   [no object] They were out marketing when their house was robbed.
9. to offer in a market for sale;
   to sell:
   [~ + object] Can they market their computers as being better than the competition?

Idioms

10. Idioms in the market for, interested in buying:
    He's in the market for a good used car.
11. Idioms on the market, for sale;
    available:
    How long has their house been on the market?

mar•ket•a•ble, adj. 
mar•ket•er, n. [countable]

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mar•ket  (mär′kit), n. 

1. an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods;
   a marketplace:
   a farmers' market.
2. a store for the sale of food:
   a meat market.
3. a meeting of people for selling and buying.
4. the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
5. Business trade or traffic, esp. as regards a particular commodity:
   the market in cotton.
6. Business a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity:
   the cotton market.
7. Business the field of trade or business:
   the best shoes in the market.
8. Business demand for a commodity:
   an unprecedented market for leather.
9. Business a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services:
   the health-food market.
10. Business a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used:
    the foreign market; the New England market.
11. Business current price or value:
    a rising market for shoes.
12. Business See stock market. 
13. Business at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
14. Idioms, Business in the market for, ready to buy;
    interested in buying:
    I'm in the market for a new car.
15. Idioms, Business on the market, for sale;
    available:
    Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.

v.i. 

16. to buy or sell in a market;
    deal.
17. to buy food and provisions for the home.

v.t. 

18. to carry or send to market for disposal:
    to market produce every week.
19. to dispose of in a market;
    sell.

• Vulgar Latin *marcātus, Latin mercātus trading, traffic, market
• Middle English, late Old English 1100–1150

mar′ket•er, n. 
Synonyms

• 19. vend, merchandise, peddle.

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market / ˈmɑːkɪt/ noun

1. an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
2. (as modifier): market day
3. a place, such as an open space in a town, at which a market is held
4. a shop that sells a particular merchandise: an antique market
5. the market ⇒ business or trade in a commodity as specified: the sugar market
6. the trading or selling opportunities provided by a particular group of people: the foreign market
7. demand for a particular product or commodity
8. See stock market
9. See market price, market value
10. be in the market for ⇒ to wish to buy or acquire
11. on the market ⇒ available for purchase
12. buyer's market ⇒ a market characterized by excess supply and thus favourable to buyers

verb ( -kets, -keting, -keted)

1. (transitive) to offer or produce for sale
2. (intransitive) to buy or deal in a market

Etymology: 12th Century: from Latin mercātus; from mercāri to trade, from merx merchandise

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