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marketing

noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/
  • US: /ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: M AA1 R K AH0 T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Shopping, going to market as a buyer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Philippines, archaic, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Attending market as a seller.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

  • Marketing was a time-consuming task for truck farming families, as the round trip could take most of the day.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • a bachelor's degree in marketing

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

present participle and gerund of market

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

shopping at a market

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • does the weekly marketing at the supermarket

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: shopping

7

noun

Meaning 7

the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • most companies have a manager in charge of marketing

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism

Narrower terms: direct marketing, distribution channel, channel

8

noun

Meaning 8

the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: selling, merchandising

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism

Narrower terms: bait and switch, private treaty, bootlegging, capitalization, capitalisation, retail, wholesale, sale, syndication, dumping, dutch auction, retailing, telemarketing, teleselling, telecommerce, vending, peddling, hawking, vendition, resale

History

Etymology

By surface analysis, market + -ing.

Across languages

Translations

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: търговия (tǎrgovija) — buying and selling in a market
  • Finnish: kaupankäynti — buying and selling in a market
  • German: Handel — buying and selling in a market
  • Greek: εμπορία (emporía) — buying and selling in a market
  • Persian: خرید و فروش (xarid-o-foruš) — buying and selling in a market
  • Russian: торго́вля (torgóvlja) — buying and selling in a market
  • Albanian: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Arabic: تَسْوِيق (taswīq) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Armenian: մարքեթինգ (markʻetʻing) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Azerbaijani: marketinq — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Belarusian: ма́ркетынг (márkjetynh) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Belarusian: марке́тынг (markjétynh) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Bengali: বিপণন (biponon) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Bulgarian: маркетинг — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Catalan: màrqueting — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Chinese Mandarin: 市場營銷 /市场营销 (shìchǎng yíngxiāo) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Chinese Mandarin: 營銷 /营销 (yíngxiāo) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Czech: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Danish: markedsføring — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Esperanto: marketiko — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Estonian: turundus — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Finnish: markkinointi — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • French: mercatique — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • French: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Galician: mercadotecnia — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Georgian: მარკეტინგი (marḳeṭingi) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • German: Marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • German: Vertrieb — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Greek: αγοραία προώθηση (agoraía proóthisi) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Greek: μάρκετινγκ (márketingk) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Greek: αγοραλογία (agoralogía) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Greek: προώθηση (proóthisi) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Hebrew: שיווק (shivuk) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Hindi: विपणन (vipṇan) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Hungarian: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Italian: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Italian: mercatistica — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Italian: mercatologia — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Italian: vendistica — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Japanese: マーケティング (māketingu) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Kazakh: маркетинг (marketiñ) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Korean: 마케팅 (maketing) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Kyrgyz: маркетинг — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Lao: ການຕະຫຼາດ (kān ta lāt) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Latvian: tirgvedība — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Latvian: tirgzinība — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Latvian: mārketings — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Lithuanian: rinkodara — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Macedonian: маркетинг — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Norman: markét'tie — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Norwegian Bokmål: markedsføring — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: marknadsføring — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Persian: بازاریابی (bâzâr-yâbi) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Persian: مارکتینگ (mârketing) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Polish: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Portuguese: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Portuguese: mercadologia — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Russian: ма́ркетинг (márketing) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Russian: марке́тинг (markéting) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Scottish Gaelic: margadh — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Serbo-Croatian: ма̀ркетинг — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Serbo-Croatian: màrketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Slovak: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Slovene: trženje — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Slovene: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Spanish: mercadotecnia — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Spanish: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Spanish: márketin — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Spanish: mercadeo — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Spanish: marketeo — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Spanish: marketineo — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Swedish: marknadsföring — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Tajik: маркетинг — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Thai: การตลาด (gaan-dtà-làat) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Turkish: pazarlama — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Turkish: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Turkmen: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Ukrainian: ма́ркетинг (márketynh) — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Uzbek: marketing — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Welsh: marchnata — the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service
  • Bulgarian: пазаруване (pazaruvane) — (archaic) earlier (until the 1920s), shopping, going to market
  • German: Marktbesuch — (archaic) earlier (until the 1920s), shopping, going to market
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