marketing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mar=ket=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

marketing, n. 

•  The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.  [1913 Webster]
•  Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.  [1913 Webster]
•  The activities required by a producer to sell his products, including advertising, storing, taking orders, and distribution to vendors or individuals.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

marketing

balance of trade, big business, business, business dealings, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, coemption, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, consumer power, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer sovereignty, consumer survey, consumerism, cornering, dealing, dealings, direct-mail selling, emption, fair trade, free trade, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, hire purchase, huckstering, impulse buying, industry, installment buying, intercourse, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order buying, mail-order selling, market, market research, marketing research, mercantile business, merchandising, merchantry, money illusion, multilateral trade, peddling, promotion, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, rebuying, reciprocal trade, repurchase, restraint of trade, retail, retailing, sales, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, shopping, shopping spree, small business, soft sell, the business world, the marketplace, trade, traffic, truck, unilateral trade, wholesale, wholesaling, window-shopping