MARKETING Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

marketing 1 of 2

noun

Definition of marketing

as in advertising

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marketing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of market

as in selling

to offer for sale to the public local farmers market their garden-fresh produce at roadside stands all over the valley

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Noun

The alliance is an industry advocate and resource hub for printers, print brokers, packaging and label businesses, vendors, and creative marketing professionals across 13 western states. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Bringing the Springboks, once a powerful symbol of white minority rule, into that landscape carried a significance no marketing campaign could manufacture. — Daniel Gallan, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Verb

But Barsoom and his companies continued marketing Midnight Drops for several more months and did not adequately warn dispensaries to stop selling them, according to a Colorado attorney general’s office investigation. — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026 Some hotels are marketing their quietest rooms to travelers who are looking for an especially restorative sleep experience. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marketing

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Noun

SkyAd is a more modest spinoff that makes drone advertising accessible, using hundreds of drones versus the thousands employed in full-scale productions.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
According to the district, the advertising could generate about $165,000 a year with funds split equally between the Naperville Central and Naperville North booster clubs.

— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of advertising

Verb

Under Laporta, the club might have scaled everything back, refusing to keep pace with football’s rampant wage inflation, selling young stars for a fortune and reducing their edge on the field in the process.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The band and football booster clubs will be selling cupcakes and keychains and stickers with his name and number on them to benefit the GoFundMe page that has been set up in Kufa’s name.

— Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of selling

Noun

Season 1 left viewers in the 1970s, inside the Korean Central Intelligence Agency’s anti-communist propaganda machine and alongside Baek Ki-tae’s expanding drug operation.

— Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
At the time, critics feared such an education amounted to propaganda by Beijing.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of propaganda

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