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marketeering

noun

Etymology

From marketeer + -ing.

  1. derived from mercātus
  2. derived from marchié
  3. derived from markiet
  4. inherited from market
  5. inherited from market
  6. formed as marketeer — “market + -eer”
  7. suffixed as marketeering — “marketeer + ing”

Definitions

  1. Marketing, especially when designed to mislead

    Marketing, especially when designed to mislead; false advertising.

    • Of course, there is nothing new about public relations firms being hired to merchandise candidates for public office, but the similarity of techniques between electioneering and marketeering is not always appreciated.
    • Inspired by the solidarity of the resisting oppressed, they convince themselves that simplicity is the cultural soil from which a new society, purged of marketeering impersonality and trivial excess, grows.
    • […] there’s too much mildly evangelical marketeering mumbo-jumbo about dishes that ‘don’t just look amazing and taste delicious, but are packed with important nutrients that can help you feel and look beautiful too’.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for marketeering. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA