What does "marketing" mean?

Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).

How do you pronounce "marketing"?

Pronounced //ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ//.

Common synonyms include: selling, balance of trade, big business, branding, business, business dealings.

//ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

1
Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair). countable, uncountable
"The final result of the extreme seasonality of marketings of cattle and calves in Arkansas would have been an inshipment of either slaughter cattle or block beef and beef products during three quarters of the year."
2
shopping at a market wordnet
3
Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).; Shopping, going to market as a buyer. Philippines, archaic, countable, uncountable
"Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]"
4
the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service wordnet
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Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).; Attending market as a seller. countable, dated, uncountable
"Marketing was a time-consuming task for truck farming families, as the round trip could take most of the day."

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the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money wordnet
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The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising. uncountable
"a bachelor's degree in marketing"