marketing

SayMAR-ki-tingUS/ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ/UK/ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/

Pluralmarketings (some meanings)

4 meanings of marketing

1
advertising fieldnoununcountable
The work of studying what customers want, then advertising and selling a product or service and getting it to them.
Like a shop putting its best things in the window so people stop and come inside.
The company spent a lot on marketing before launching the phone.
Good marketing helped the small bakery find new customers.
UsageYou work in marketing. It also goes before other words: a marketing plan.
Similarpromotion, advertising, merchandising, publicity
2
verb
Present participle of market. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action of selling.
The team is marketing the product across three countries.
Marketing the film well takes more than a good trailer.
UsageSay marketing the film, or the marketing of the film.
3
market tradingnouncountable or uncountable
Buying and selling things at a market, or taking things to a market to sell them.
At the yearly fair, the marketing of sheep and cattle went on for three days.
On Saturdays, farmers took their eggs to town for marketing.
UsageOften the marketing of crops or animals.
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Less common meaning

4
shoppingnounarchaicPhilippinescountable or uncountable
The act of going to a market to shop and buy food or goods.
Like going to the store to buy groceries for the week.
Mother did the marketing every morning before the shops grew crowded.
[Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone.
1926, George Herriman, comic strip Us HusbandsHere, marketing means going to the market to buy food and goods.
UsagePeople say do the marketing, like do the shopping.
Note

marketing is a form of market

market, verb: To sell something, or to try to make people want to buy it, for example by advertising it. Full entry

Forms: marketmarkets he/she/itmarketing -ing formmarketed past tense, past participle
Spelling: market → marketing: add -ing

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Origin

It comes from the word "market" plus the ending "-ing".

Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 1 fact

Marketing comes from market plus the ending -ing. fr.wiktionary.org