merchandising

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: mer=chan=dis=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

merchandising, n. 

 The activities associated with selling products, such as identification of the market{7}, advertising at the right time in the right media{7}, and creating attractive packaging and displays; also, the study of the best methods to accomplish such goals.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

merchandising

agency, barter, bartering, brokerage, buying and selling, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, dealing, direct-mail selling, doing business, exchange, give-and-take, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, horse trading, huckstering, interchange, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market, market research, marketing, marketing research, peddling, promotion, retail, retailing, sales, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell, swapping, trade, trading, trafficking, wheeling and dealing, wholesale, wholesaling