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microtargeted

microtargeted adjective: targeting a very narrow and specific audience.

Adjective

microtargeted (comparative more microtargeted, superlative most microtargeted)

  1. Targeting a very narrow and specific audience.
    • Bishop, a journalist, and Cushing, a statistician, argue that the social and political balkanization of the past 30 years — microtargeted marketing, the proliferation of TV channels, more extreme political parties — is potentially dangerous.2009 July 12, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times

Forms of microtargeted

comparativemore microtargeted
superlativemost microtargeted

Origin of microtargeted

From micro- + targeted.

Questions about microtargeted

What does microtargeted mean?
Microtargeted means targeting a very narrow and specific audience.
What part of speech is microtargeted?
Microtargeted is an adjective.

Words near microtargeted in the dictionary

  1. microtape
  2. microtapes
  3. microtaphonomic
  4. microtaphonomy
  5. microtarget
  6. microtargeted
  7. microtargeting
  8. microtargets
  9. microtasimeter
  10. microtasimeters
  11. microtask

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