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telemarket

telemarket verb: to engage in telemarketing (unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers).

Verb

telemarket (third-person singular simple present telemarkets, present participle telemarketing, simple past and past participle telemarketed)

  1. (intransitive, sometimes, transitive) To engage in telemarketing (unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers).
    • If people hate to receive telephone sales calls, why should you telemarket?2002, Niels H. Nielsen, Princeton Management Consultants guide to your new job
    • I tried canvassing for a paint company, and failed. I telemarketed for another business, and failed. I had no people skills.2003, Jim Penman, What will they franchise next?: the story of Jim's Group

Forms of telemarket

third-person singular presenttelemarkets
present participletelemarketing
past participletelemarketed
pasttelemarketed

Origin of telemarket

From tele- + market.

Questions about telemarket

What does telemarket mean?
Telemarket means to engage in telemarketing (unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers).
What part of speech is telemarket?
Telemarket is a verb.
What is the past tense of telemarket?
The past tense of telemarket is telemarketed.

Words near telemarket in the dictionary

  1. telemark turn
  2. telemark turns
  3. telemarked
  4. telemarker
  5. telemarkers
  6. telemarket
  7. telemarketed
  8. telemarketer
  9. telemarketers
  10. telemarketing
  11. telemarkets

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