telemarketing

noun

tele·mar·ket·ing | \ˌte-lə-ˈmär-kə-tiŋ

Definition of telemarketing

: the marketing of goods or services by telephone

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Stanfield plays Cassius Green, who, as the movie opens, is trying to lie his way into a not-particularly desirable telemarketing job. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "Review: Sorry to Bother You May Be the Most Culturally Relevant Movie of the Year," 5 July 2018 Download an app Because cell phones are the latest target of telemarketing, developers have been hard at work creating a suite of tools to deflect and block robocalls. — Marc Daalder, Detroit Free Press, "4 ways to stop robocalls as spammers target cell phones," 5 July 2018 That's one of the reasons why this film about a man who adopts a white voice to find success at his telemarketing job reminds us of the 1999 eccentric classic. — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, "Tired of endless sequels? Don't miss these original films this summer," 15 June 2018 Which is more valuable, spending our days making telemarketing calls or joining a World of Warcraft guild? — Livia Gershon, Longreads, "Clocking Out," 11 July 2018 At RegalView, a low-level telemarketing firm in Oakland, one path to success presents itself in the form of code-switching. — Jason Parham, WIRED, "Sorry to Bother You: A Dizzying Satire That Hungers for Truth," 7 July 2018 Cash and his girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), an activist-artist, cling to their independence but struggle to stay afloat, so Cash gets a job at a telemarketing firm called RegalView to try and make ends meet. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "Sorry to Bother You Is Fizzy, Flawed, and Fascinating," 6 July 2018 But once Armie Hammer enters the picture as the overlord of the nefarious corporation behind the telemarketing outfit, the movie loses its way in a welter of surreality. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, "'Sorry to Bother You' eventually loses its way in a welter of surreality," 5 July 2018 Cassius is pretty good at this telemarketing stuff. — refinery29.com, "Sorry To Bother You Review: As Bold & In Your Face As Tessa Thompson's Earrings," 3 July 2018

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