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age compression

age compression noun: the marketing to young children of items for older children and adults.

Noun

age compression (uncountable)

  1. The marketing to young children of items for older children and adults.
    • The children, tweens, teens, and the college market represent enormous potential for marketers, and the trend of age compression will have great impact on such selected industries as toys, apparel, cosmetics, shoes, and jewelry.2006 September 30, Ronald D. Michman with Edward M. Mazze, The Affluent Consumer: Marketing And Selling the Luxury Lifestyle, Westport: Praeger, →ISBN, →OL, page 63
    • A news item (Chittenden, 2007) reported that Tesco and WH Smith were forced by protest to remove a pole dancing kit (an eight foot long pole, thongs, frilly garters and DVD) from the Toys and Games section of their web site. Apparently this is an example of a marketing phenomenon called ‘kids...2007, Jill Radford, “The Politics of Pornography: A Feminist Perspective”, in Clare McGlynn, Erika Rackley, Nicole Westmarland, editors, Positions on the Politics of Porn: A debate on government...

Questions about age compression

What does age compression mean?
Age compression means the marketing to young children of items for older children and adults.
What part of speech is age compression?
Age compression is a noun.

Words near age compression in the dictionary

  1. age adjustments
  2. age ain't nothing but a number
  3. age before beauty
  4. age class
  5. age classes
  6. age compression
  7. age difference
  8. age differences
  9. age distribution
  10. age distributions
  11. age dream

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