- the act of buying or selling in a market
- all business activity involved in the moving of goods or the providing of services to the consumer
- the art or study of selling, advertising, packaging, etc.
noun
The definition of marketing is the act and process of buying and selling.
An example of marketing is creating advertisements for a product.
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noun
- The act or process of buying and selling in a market.
- The strategic functions involved in identifying and appealing to particular groups of consumers, often including activities such as advertising, branding, pricing, and sales.
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Verb
- Present participle of market.
Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural marketings)
- Buying and selling in a market.
- (uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; includes market research and advertising.
- (up to the 1920s, archaic) Shopping, going to market.
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Sentence Examples
- We also believe in not using marketing jargon or spiel.
- I help them with marketing, which was my major until I quit school.
- The GM said your team came up with the latest marketing campaign.
- F.) Marketing And Supply In the days of slave-grown cotton, the American planters, being men of wealth farming on a large scale, consigned the bulk Moving of their produce as a rule direct to the ports.
- Its most important industry is that of clearing away the heavy forests and marketing the timber.
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