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marketeering

marketeering noun: marketing, especially when designed to mislead; false advertising.

Noun

marketeering (uncountable)

  1. Marketing, especially when designed to mislead; false advertising.
    • Of course, there is nothing new about public relations firms being hired to merchandise candidates for public office, but the similarity of techniques between electioneering and marketeering is not always appreciated.1970, Robert Hunter, chapter 17, in The Enemies of Anarchy, New York: Viking, published 1973, pages 143–144
    • Inspired by the solidarity of the resisting oppressed, they convince themselves that simplicity is the cultural soil from which a new society, purged of marketeering impersonality and trivial excess, grows.1987, Todd Gitlin, chapter 6, in The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, New York: Bantam, page 164

Origin of marketeering

From marketeer + -ing.

Questions about marketeering

What does marketeering mean?
Marketeering means marketing, especially when designed to mislead; false advertising.
What part of speech is marketeering?
Marketeering is a noun.

Words near marketeering in the dictionary

  1. marketableness
  2. marketably
  3. marketecture
  4. marketed
  5. marketeer
  6. marketeering
  7. marketeers
  8. marketer
  9. marketers
  10. marketese
  11. marketful

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